Time is the guy at the amusement park who paints shirts with an airbrush. He sprays out the color in a fine mist until it's just lonely particles floating in the air, waiting to be plastered in place. And what… — Ian Caldwell Copy Share Image
The only things people can ever know about you are the ones that you let them see — Ian Caldwell Copy Share Image
“With that in mind, I try to imagine the greatest gift I could've given my father. And as sleep descends on me, the answer seems strangely clear: my faith in his idols. That was what he wanted all along - to feel that we were united by something permanent, to know that as long as he and I believed in… — Ian Caldwell Copy Share
Never invest yourself in anything so deeply that its failure could cost you your happiness. — Ian Caldwell Copy Share Image
“Hope, Paul said to me once, which whispered from Pandora's box only after all the other plagues and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is only time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing us outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion...Like all things in the universe,… — Ian Caldwell Copy Share
Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls, apes become… — Ian Caldwell Copy Share Image
A son is a promise that time makes to a man,the guarantee every father receives that whatever he holds dear will someday be considered… — Ian Caldwell Copy Share Image
“They could never quite reconcile themselves to the idea that our lives don't follow the dramatic arc that a good author gives to a… — Ian Caldwell Copy Share Image
“Hope...which is whispered from Pandora's box only after all the other plagues and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things.… — Ian Caldwell Copy Share Image
Two people who think they're in love can find out, when left alone, exactly how little they know about each other. — Ian Caldwell Copy Share Image
“The magic of Paul’s intelligence is that he has more patience than anyone I’ve ever met, and with it he simply wears problems down.… — Ian Caldwell Copy Share Image
