“He looked at me intently, from what seemed behind the veil of a grave experience. Then slowly and prophetically, he said the scariest thing I'd ever heard: "Because the answer to a heartfelt question, Jack, will always break your heart.” — Thomas H. Cook Copy Share Image
“She was a woman of extended silences, I noticed, and she said very little as we walked the streets of La Boca, looking at… — Thomas H. Cook Copy Share Image
“Loretta’s eyes flashed. “Is that what gets you through the night, Philip?” she asked. “Choosing to believe something, whether it’s true or not?” “In… — Thomas H. Cook Copy Share Image
“It is important to keep old things, he insisted, because it was through them alone that new things could be judged.” — Thomas H. Cook Copy Share Image
“It all comes down to people in the end. All the global policies and grand schemes. They all come down to what we do… — Thomas H. Cook Copy Share Image
“Perspective gets lost in moral certainties. Which only means that no one was ever burned at the stake by a doubter.” — Thomas H. Cook Copy Share Image
“A man with no one to revere, Julian said, is a man alone.' At that moment, he seemed to consider such loneliness the worst… — Thomas H. Cook Copy Share Image
“It’s not that we grow old, I thought, but that we grow old in decline and discomfort, and these hardships are made worse by… — Thomas H. Cook Copy Share Image
Babes crying in the wilderness know that the world already has plenty of terrifying noise, but there aren't enough clear voices to smooth our… — Thomas H. Cook Copy Share Image
At a certain point memory becomes a beach strewn with landmines, all life’s many losses buried in those sands. — Thomas H. Cook Copy Share Image
“The world has plenty of noise, Julian, but not many voices. And because there are so few, each one matters. . . That's my… — Thomas H. Cook Copy Share Image
“He looked at me intently, from what seemed behind the veil of a grave experience. Then slowly and prophetically, he said the scariest thing… — Thomas H. Cook Copy Share Image
The last best hope of life is that at some point during living it, all that you did wrong will suddenly teach you to… — Thomas H. Cook Copy Share Image
