126 Quotes by Tiffanie DeBartolo

It is impossible to become less of yourself by doing something you really wanna do. You can only become less by not doing it.

I’d never seen a grown man cry like that before, so unself-consciously, so unashamedly. I didn’t know if he was crying for what he’d lost, or for what he’d never had, but there was a beauty in his tears that moved me more than I could ever explain with words – a beauty in the honesty of his sadness, in the grace of it’s purity. It was holy water raining down from the clouds in his eyes, falling to the sand then being carried back to the source from which it came – his blessed sea.

I know that if I ever have the audacity to blame fate or God for holding a gun to my temple, I also have the wherewithal to remind myself that if I end up with a hole in my head, I was the one who pulled the trigger.

I felt betrayed and deceived, and I feared I’d never get to be a William Eggleston character.

The tone of his voice was smooth and rich, like freshly ground coffee. And he spoke softly, deliberately, as if every word he uttered were a self-portrait.

For me, the release was a spot in time with no past and no future. Just the extraordinary simplicity of a moment – the kind of moment that has a funny way of making a person believe that life and love can last forever.

I remember feeling it even then- the sensation that your heart weighs more than your body- that it might burst out of your chest and splatter all over the wall. I suppose it’s called loneliness.

There’s nothing worse than falling in love with a person over and over every time you lay eyes on them, especially when you hate their goddamn guts.

Everyone might as well say good-bye to them now, these two aren’t coming back.