66 Quotes by Tim Tharp

I’ve never seen her laugh like this before. It’s a sight to behold, a wonder, like the Eiffel Tower or the World’s Largest Prairie Dog.

Nothing lasts. You think it’s going to. You think ‘Here’s something I can hold on to’, but it always slips away.

I want to swear to the king of the king of the kings it’s enough. But this afternoon the magic has all run out.

That’s how our system works. It’s a giant con game. One thing gets old, then you have to buy the next thing that gets old, then the next thing. Our whole society’s a training ground for addicts.

You get to be about eleven or twelve and everything’s old hat. They’ve drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don’t want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything to still be new.

My job is okay. You know what an okay job is, don’t you? It’s a job you only hate some of the time instead of all of the time.

See, I do have a future to give her after all, just not one that includes me.

Our whole society’s a training ground for addicts.

This idea comes to me that we’re all grass blades on the same lawn. We’ve grown up together, shoulder to shoulder, under the same sun, drinking the same rain. But you know what happens to grass blades – somebody cuts them down just when they reach their prime.