60 Quotes by Tommy Wallach

When change loses its magic, then there really isn’t anything left to live for.

The world is full of unknown mysteries and vague resolutions.

Just another little piece of utterly irrelevant history, aspiring to permanence, doomed to oblivion.

She didn’t look back, but she did break her stride for half a second, which was really the most you could hope for with a girl like that.

Anita felt like she finally understood why love was symbolized by the grotesque pumping organ, always threatening to clog, or break, or attack. Because the heart was the body’s engine, and love was an act of the body. Your mind could tell you who to hate or respect or envy, but only your body – your nostrils and your mouth and the wide, blank canvas of your skin – could tell you who to love.

I’m nobody. I’m just a tiny little character in the big book of your life. And you’re right. People do die. All of them. Bar none. So what does it even mean? I call someone crazy because not everybody is crazy. I call someone brilliant because not everyone is brilliant. But everybody dies. Squirrels die. Tress die. Skin cells die and your inner organs die and the person you were yesterday’s dead too. So what does it mean to die? Not much.

Young people feel things so deeply, don’t they?′ she said quietly, almost to herself. ‘Everything’s happening for the first time.

Back on the beach, everyone was tearing off their costumes piece by piece. It was like some kind of crazy dream, the sight of all those people emerging from their disguises, shedding the fake muscles and plastic armor, the fairy wings and angel wings, and devils horns, all of it piled up like a mass grave for make-believe.

Instead of a few months, the doctors gave him a year. That was how you could be lucky without being lucky. That was how you could be a winner and still lose.