“The company increased as light was let into the house. But” — Robert Goolrick Business Copy Share Image
If love drove people mad, what would lack of love do? — Robert Goolrick Lack of love Copy Share Image
“How life goes in bad directions when your heart is asleep.” — Robert Goolrick Asleep Copy Share Image
I think kissing is what separates us from the animals and makes us divine. — Robert Goolrick Animal Copy Share Image
“He was drowsy. “I hope, I hope in my heart, that the fire is out. It burned too hot.” — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
“You wreck your own life and then, very gently, you wreck the lives of those around you.” — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
It's a sad thing to watch your best friend turn into somebody you don't know anymore. Or even want to know. — Robert Goolrick Best friend Copy Share Image
“Children remember staying up late. Grownups think about getting up early” — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
“She was just a simple, honest woman standing in the ruin of a late winter garden, waiting for the spring. “Catherine.” — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
“He wanted to slice her open and lie inside the warm blood of her body.” — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
“Their love for me was both a myth and a torture and so I wrecked everything. I hurt them, and I left… — Robert Goolrick Friendship Copy Share Image
“I tell these stories because I have lied about my life to people who have been kind to me and I am… — Robert Goolrick Bad mood Copy Share Image
“She was the beautiful, lethal,insinuating spider he had waited for all his life. She was the final knife in his heart. He… — Robert Goolrick Life Copy Share Image
“Every exchange making him feel like an idiot, making him draw his spine up straight and making him fiddle with his hair,… — Robert Goolrick Idiot Copy Share Image
“He would move from city to city as he had always done, using people, soiling them like sheets and walking away, to… — Robert Goolrick Mind Copy Share Image
There is an ache in my heart for the imagined beauty of a life I haven't had, from which I had been… — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
“Here's another thing: There are certain wounds that never heal, certain hurts that never leave you alone, like a broken bone that… — Robert Goolrick Emotional pain Copy Share Image
“Their exotic splendor transported Ralph and Catherine into their own Xanadu, a place that was wholly and entirely the kingdom of their… — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
“I loved kissing them on the mouth, the taste of their tongues. I think kissing is what separated us from the animals… — Robert Goolrick Kissing Copy Share Image
“Soul murder, the psychiatrists call it, the sexual violation of children. Unimaginably small boys. Boys whose heads do not reach to their… — Robert Goolrick Children Copy Share Image
“In a life, in any life, bad things happen. Many good things happen, of course, we know what they are-joy, tenderness, success… — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
“If you had been there you would not have noticed. You would not have noticed your own stillness in this thin slice… — Robert Goolrick Stillness Copy Share Image
When you're young, and you head out to wonderful, everything is fresh and bright as a brand new penny, but before you… — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
“Sometime, Mrs. Truitt, we work very hard at something, we exhaust ourselves to accomplish something which seems vital to us." He chose… — Robert Goolrick Effort Copy Share Image
“Standing in the center of the crowd, his solitude was enormous. He felt that in all the vast and frozen space in… — Robert Goolrick Life Copy Share Image
“But I told my grandmother, and she listened, and then she said, "Don't ever tell this story to anybody else. If you… — Robert Goolrick Family Copy Share Image
“Sometimes she sat and let her mind go blank and her eyes go out of focus, so that she watched the slow,… — Robert Goolrick Alone Copy Share Image
Catherine Land liked the beginnings of things. The pure white possibility of the empty room, the first kiss, the first swipe at… — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
“The thing is, all memory is fiction. You have to remember that. Of course, there are things that actually, certifiably happened, things… — Robert Goolrick Big things Copy Share Image
“There is in this valley a beating heart. It is always and ever there. And when I am gone, it will beat… — Robert Goolrick Children Copy Share Image
“How most people carry on is a mystery. What they talk about at supper. How they can stand to sit in front… — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
“... It was a story of people who don't choose life over death until it's too late to know the difference, people… — Robert Goolrick Children Copy Share Image
“Even if we choose to sever the ties to all we ever knew as home, to redefine the spaces we live in,… — Robert Goolrick Love Copy Share Image
“Her true heart, however, was buried so far inside her, so gone beneath the vast blanket of her lies and deceptions and… — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
“But this here, the valley of sweet Virginia, this is the blissful shore. There is no more to reach for. But, humming,… — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
“Time will tell if sorry is enough. I don’t think it is. If you died tonight, I wouldn’t come to your funeral.”… — Robert Goolrick Funeral Copy Share Image
If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it. — Robert Goolrick Love Copy Share Image
“Somewhere in the pain there is pleasure, and that is the most awful part, perhaps. (170)” — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
