Tiffanie DeBartolo

“Life is short and a man should take pride in his work, even if his work makes him feel like a total…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

That's why you have to save the dying man. Because you want him around to keep saving you.

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“I couldn't feel anything," I finally told him. "I couldn't feel the truth. Does that make sense? Do you know what the…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“I guess I need to find a happy medium, someplace between giving them what they want and ending up face-down in a…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“Sometimes the most consequential moments in my life originate from a state of completely witless human auto-pilot.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“Jacob would have rather looked out of place at the Ritz than look like he cared to fit in anywhere.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“you can’t put life on pause and then catch up with it later when you have more energy to give. You have…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“Absorbing his words was like taking a drink of hot tea. They burned on the way down, but soothed my insides once…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“See that?" Paul said. "Ten goddamn seconds." "I don't get it." "You didn't even have to hear the whole song, just a…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“These clever goddamn people. They really know how to play a guy. But holy Hell, their biggest skill is raping you, all…

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He was waiting for something from me. Acknowledgement. Validation. Commiseration, perhaps. I couldn’t even look at him because I was afraid of…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“I imagined the towns were filled with people like me - lonely people who wanted to fly away, who wanted more from…

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“The days will always be brighter because he existed. The nights will always be darker because he's gone. And no matter what…

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Sometimes I would open my eyes when we were kissing, I would watch him and I could see it. I could actually…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

And no matter what anybody says about grief and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

I know that if I ever have the audacity to blame fate or God for holding a gun to my temple, I…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can’t. So we write them down. Or we paint them.…

— Tiffanie Debartolo

Maybe I’m weak for music men. Maybe I’m weak, period. But I couldn’t deny I was charmed by his arrogant, fool-ish guise.

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“I always felt like that myself, that I didn’t marry into the landscape of the human world like others did,”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“Oh my God, that would be just like An Officer and a Gentleman,” Kat cried. “Pick her up, Grace! Do it!”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

Everyone feels that void. Everyone who has the balls to look inside themselves, anyway. It's what life's all about.. A search.

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“If you have a desire to write, that means there's stuff in you that wants out. And if you don't write things…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“Remember this moment, my friend the tape recorder. Lying next to Eliza, I had the feeling I'd just found something I didn't…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“Tell me what you're afraid of,' Jacob said. Shit, I thought, this could take all day. My life was ruled by my…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“I was just sick, beaten, in a city of millions, of suffering by myself. I was twenty-seven going on sixty-five. I should…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“It had to happen. It was part of the order of things. It was the way the universe was supposed to work.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

The question is one of faith. Faith in my talent. Faith in my decisions. And faith in the idea that the truth,…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“I hoped his last sensation was the euphoria. The peace. The love. I had to believe it was the love.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

I didn’t write that song to try and win you over, or to steal you away from him. I wrote it because…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“Magician, musician. Same thing. A little hocus pocus and a whole lot of faith, right?”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“I could actually see LOVE—not words, not an emotion, not an abstract concept or a subjective state of mind, but a living,…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“I nodded, refusing to consider the possibility that any of us are doomed to die the same sorry people we sometimes become.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“Across the hall, Paul was either fucking the girl or murdering her, I couldn't tell which. I smelled mothballs. The afghan was…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“I wouldn’t trust a place that doesn’t understand how to correctly form the possessive of a noun.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“ Nobody,   and I mean  nobody,   ever started a revo-lution playing by the rules.” ”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“Jacob laughed along with Chip in a fake, Great Gatsby, old-money sort of voice, obviously mocking my brother.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“I have dinner with you at least three times a week. You think now that you've licked ice cream from my belly…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

The phrase what I want struck me. It contains so much entitlement, so many complications, but encompasses only what a person doesn't…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“We had pathetically simple dreams: to do meaningful work that we could be proud of, to be together, and to be happy.…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the heart stops beating and the last breath is taken.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo