“She was the beautiful, lethal, insinuating spider he had waited for all his life.” — Robert Goolrick Life Copy Share Image
“In times of grief, you're waiting for something to happen, but the thing you're waiting for has already taken place.” — Robert Goolrick Death Copy Share Image
“Play the hand you have, Antonio, that’s all anybody expects. And it’s a pretty good hand.” “I’m” — Robert Goolrick Football Copy Share Image
“We want to do something with the time we have, something that will give that time a certain meaning, a certain weight.” — Robert Goolrick Inspirational Copy Share Image
“Men only give you what they give you...when they know they can't give you what you want.” — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
“What makes a child of four realize that something awful is going to happen? (168)” — Robert Goolrick Children Copy Share Image
“Yes. Childhood is the most dangerous place of all. If we had to live there forever, we wouldn't last very long.” — Robert Goolrick Child Copy Share Image
“I think kissing is what seperates us from the animals and makes us divine. ” — Robert Goolrick Kissing Copy Share Image
“...she had brought harm to him, in the believe that nothing mattered, that no moment had consequences beyond the moment itself. She… — Robert Goolrick Faith Copy Share Image
“There was so much we had done to ourselves, so much we said in our sessions that our hearts were rent with… — Robert Goolrick Grief Copy Share Image
There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward… — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
“She knew there were parts of the past you had to let go of, certain lands that were irredeemably lost, sorrowfully lost,… — Robert Goolrick Heart Copy Share Image
I would give anything, anything, to be the man to whom this has not happened. I can not accommodate myself to it.… — Robert Goolrick Abuse Copy Share Image
“But I don't think that's the case for a lot of people. For a lot of people, for a lot the people… — Robert Goolrick Choice Copy Share Image
“She had been adept at the beginning and the end of things, and now she saw that whatever pleasures life had to… — Robert Goolrick Heart Copy Share Image
“Learning became her. She loved the smell of the book from the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the… — Robert Goolrick Book Copy Share Image
“She believed in the miraculous. Or she had, until she reached an age when, all of a sudden, she realized that the… — Robert Goolrick Heart Copy Share Image
“She had agreed to marry him without realizing that marriage brought a kind a simple pleasure, a pleasure in the continued company… — Robert Goolrick Business Copy Share Image
I know that I am not the only person who is alone in the world. I know that others sorrow in the… — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
“Then there was survival. There was going on, as she had always gone on, without much joy, against her will, against her… — Robert Goolrick Heart Copy Share Image
“I heard this old country guy say once, "I think you decide pretty early on how happy you're going to be, and… — Robert Goolrick Choice Copy Share Image
It is the tenderness that breaks our hearts. The loveliness that leaves us stranded on the shore, watching the boats sail away.… — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
“The thousand thousand grasses, dry now in the late-summer heat, bristle like the brittle pages of a thousand ancient books being turned… — Robert Goolrick Books Copy Share Image
“But there was no use. There was no point. It was just a story. It was just a story of people, of… — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
“As you have been on the road, what have you been hearing from readers about A RELIABLE WIFE? RG: The most interesting… — Robert Goolrick Age Copy Share Image
“Learning became her. She loved the smell of the books, the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world… — Robert Goolrick Books Copy Share Image
“Now it's your land. But it's important, at least to me,that you remember that it's not just your land. There is a… — Robert Goolrick History Copy Share Image
“We all wanted to be somebody else. Somebody braver, or more handsome, or smarter. It’s what children want. It’s what you grow… — Robert Goolrick Children Copy Share Image
“Be not dishearten’d—Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible. —WALT WHITMAN, “Over the… — Robert Goolrick Freedom Copy Share Image
“We tend to go on loving the things the people who loved us loved. They are invested with soul, even if the… — Robert Goolrick Loving Copy Share Image
I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and… — Robert Goolrick Abuse Copy Share Image
I wasn't safe. I wasn't permanent. My life was a fiction I had created, like an alien who comes to earth and… — Robert Goolrick Affection Copy Share Image
“She had no one in the world. Her whole world, what was left of it, was here, and there was no way… — Robert Goolrick Heart Copy Share Image
The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the… — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
“...desire had its exaggerated and dramatic pleasures, but he was bored by the endless scenes and recantations. Love was simply the same… — Robert Goolrick Desire Copy Share Image
“He loved her so much he felt his bones would break. Loving her was like lying in a bed of nettles, and… — Robert Goolrick Cold water Copy Share Image
“He walked home, completely at peace. He knew now he would go on doing the things he was doing -- going to… — Robert Goolrick Journey Copy Share Image
