Heart Quotes by Robert Goolrick

9 Heart quotes by Robert Goolrick

Robert Goolrick’s prose often lingers on memory’s edge. In nine concise excerpts, he captures the bittersweet texture of love’s lingering imprint.

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There is an ache in my heart for the imagined beauty of a life I haven't had, from which I had been…

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“She knew there were parts of the past you had to let go of, certain lands that were irredeemably lost, sorrowfully lost,…

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“She had no one in the world. Her whole world, what was left of it, was here, and there was no way…

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“She had been adept at the beginning and the end of things, and now she saw that whatever pleasures life had to…

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“Sometimes she sat and let her mind go blank and her eyes go out of focus, so that she watched the slow,…

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“She believed in the miraculous. Or she had, until she reached an age when, all of a sudden, she realized that the…

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It is the tenderness that breaks our hearts. The loveliness that leaves us stranded on the shore, watching the boats sail away.…

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“Then there was survival. There was going on, as she had always gone on, without much joy, against her will, against her…

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“Her true heart, however, was buried so far inside her, so gone beneath the vast blanket of her lies and deceptions and…

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The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other. No…

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If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.

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There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that…

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“Be not dishearten’d—Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible. —WALT WHITMAN, “Over the Carnage Rose…

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“She was just a simple, honest woman standing in the ruin of a late winter garden, waiting for the spring. “Catherine.”

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“Standing in the center of the crowd, his solitude was enormous. He felt that in all the vast and frozen space in which he…

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“You wreck your own life and then, very gently, you wreck the lives of those around you.”

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“She was the beautiful, lethal,insinuating spider he had waited for all his life. She was the final knife in his heart. He opened his…

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“I tell these stories because I have lied about my life to people who have been kind to me and I am tired of…

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“But there was no use. There was no point. It was just a story. It was just a story of people, of Ralph and…

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“I loved kissing them on the mouth, the taste of their tongues. I think kissing is what separated us from the animals and makes…

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“Somewhere in the pain there is pleasure, and that is the most awful part, perhaps. (170)”

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The thing is, all memory is fiction,

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“He walked home, completely at peace. He knew now he would go on doing the things he was doing -- going to work, buying…

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