“The past comes back once and then it keeps coming back and coming back, not just one part of the past but… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“At the time, I thought this was just one of those vague things adults say to remind you that you're a kid… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“There is always someone smarter than you; you’d think we die from the constant pain of our mental inferiority, except that most… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“There's nothing as quiet as that moment before one person is about to tell another something neither of them wants to hear.” — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“It was a complicated look. I remember thinking that, and I also remember thinking that you had to have known someone for… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“And I also know that this is why love allows us to be so cruel to the beloved: so that the beloved… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“I didn't normally talk this way: but sometimes you have to pretend to be an innocent child to learn something about the complicated world… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“Can a story be good only if it produces an effect? If the effect is a bad one, but intended, has the story done… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“They [my eyes] immediately started to tear up, tears being your eyes' way of forbidding you to look away,of forcing you to look at… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“I think, that love endures, but that it isn't everything, and it isn't ever what we want it to be...” — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“When he did that, I didn't hate him anymore, I really didn't, and maybe this is why people do so many hateful things to… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“They looked at each other for a while their gazes steady, unblinking. It was the way people stare at each other not when they're… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“When I was a boy, I would read those postcards and know exactly why my father was doing what he was doing: he was… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“When we say we know something in our bones, we mean we don't know yet how we know what we know. This is what… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“After a dream like that, you're grateful that it was just a dream, that no matter how bad your actual life, it couldn't be… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“I could hear the exasperation in her voice, so beautiful and familiar, but sad, too, like hearing church bells right before your funeral.” — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“I had what, I wanted, it was with me, in the room, including the room itself. Was it possible that we hear that voice… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“In truth I was very pleased with myself and with my story and all that had happened in it. Because you can't help being… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
