--- title: "1 Day Ended Quotes By Jim Crace" description: "1 Day Ended quotes by Jim Crace. Plus more from Jim Crace and more Day Ended sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/551/jim-crace-28250_excused_i-am-excused-i-think-for-wondering-if-i_300198.jpg" --- > [“I am excused, I think, for wondering if I am the only one alive this afternoon with no other living soul who wants to cling to me, no other soul who'll let me dampen her. The day has ended and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-crace/i-am-excused-i-think-for-wondering-if-i-am-the-only-one-alive-this/) [Jim Crace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-crace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/551/jim-crace-28250_excused_i-am-excused-i-think-for-wondering-if-i_300198.jpg) ## More by Jim Crace > [“On nights like this, when there is anxiety about, there is a glut of lovemaking. Then the moon is our dance master. He has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-crace/on-nights-like-this-when-there-is-anxiety-about-there-is-a-glut-of/) [Jim Crace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-crace/) > [Retiring from writing is not to retire from life, but retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-crace/retiring-from-writing-is-not-to-retire-from-life-but-retiring-from/) [Jim Crace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-crace/) > [“There's not a season set aside for pondering and reveries. It will not les us hesitate or rest; it does not wish us to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-crace/there-s-not-a-season-set-aside-for-pondering-and-reveries-it-will-not/) [Jim Crace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-crace/) > [“I am excused, I think, for wondering if I am the only one alive this afternoon with no other living soul who wants to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-crace/i-am-excused-i-think-for-wondering-if-i-am-the-only-one-alive-this/) [Jim Crace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-crace/) > [Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors and their toes are going to curl up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-crace/try-pitching-a-story-of-happiness-to-your-editors-and-their-toes-are/) [Jim Crace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-crace/) > [“Sometimes in matters of the heart words are not required. Are ill advised, in fact.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-crace/sometimes-in-matters-of-the-heart-words-are-not-required-are-ill/) [Jim Crace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-crace/) > [To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-crace/to-ask-a-novelist-to-talk-about-his-novels-is-like-asking-somebody-to/) [Jim Crace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-crace/) > [“I think I'd like her to turn round. I want to see her face a second time. That first time she was hardly visible.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-crace/i-think-i-d-like-her-to-turn-round-i-want-to-see-her-face-a-second/) [Jim Crace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-crace/) > [“And it seems I ought to scatter too. Perhaps at once. It's always better to turn your back on the gale than press your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-crace/and-it-seems-i-ought-to-scatter-too-perhaps-at-once-it-s-always/) [Jim Crace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-crace/) > [“Any hawk looking down on the orchard's cloistered square, hoping for the titbit of a beetle or a mouse, would see a patterned canopy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-crace/any-hawk-looking-down-on-the-orchard-s-cloistered-square-hoping-for/) [Jim Crace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-crace/) > [There is no remedy for death--or birth--except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-crace/there-is-no-remedy-for-death-or-birth-except-to-hug-the-spaces-in/) [Jim Crace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-crace/) > [Secrets are like pregnancies hereabouts. You can hide them for a while but then they will start screaming.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-crace/secrets-are-like-pregnancies-hereabouts-you-can-hide-them-for-a-while/) [Jim Crace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-crace/) > [I was captivated by Sherrie Flick's meticulous and intelligent study of Margaret and Vivette, and the men they share. Reconsidering Happiness is a courageously…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-crace/i-was-captivated-by-sherrie-flick-s-meticulous-and-intelligent-study/) [Jim Crace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-crace/) > [“The mood has changed. It's heavier. We were liquid; now we're stones.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-crace/the-mood-has-changed-it-s-heavier-we-were-liquid-now-we-re-stones/) [Jim Crace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-crace/) > [There's solace in the thought that I will never finish missing her.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-crace/there-s-solace-in-the-thought-that-i-will-never-finish-missing-her/) [Jim Crace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-crace/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/day-ended/jim-crace/#itemlist", "name": "1 Day Ended Quotes By Jim Crace", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I am excused, I think, for wondering if I am the only one alive this afternoon with no other living soul who wants to cling to me, no other soul who'll let me dampen her. The day has ended and the light has snuffed. 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