“You wreck your own life and then, very gently, you wreck the lives of those around you.” — Robert Goolrick Gently Copy Share Image
“Children remember staying up late. Grownups think about getting up early” — Robert Goolrick Staying Late Copy Share Image
“She was just a simple, honest woman standing in the ruin of a late winter garden, waiting for the spring. “Catherine.” — Robert Goolrick Catherine Copy Share Image
If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it. — Robert Goolrick Love Copy Share Image
“Time will tell if sorry is enough. I don’t think it is. If you died tonight, I wouldn’t come to your funeral.”… — Robert Goolrick Funeral Copy Share Image
“She was the beautiful, lethal, insinuating spider he had waited for all his life.” — Robert Goolrick Life Copy Share Image
“Somewhere in the pain there is pleasure, and that is the most awful part, perhaps. (170)” — Robert Goolrick Awful Copy Share Image
“Play the hand you have, Antonio, that’s all anybody expects. And it’s a pretty good hand.” “I’m” — Robert Goolrick Football Copy Share Image
“I tell these stories because I have lied about my life to people who have been kind to me and I am… — Robert Goolrick Bad mood Copy Share Image
“She was the beautiful, lethal,insinuating spider he had waited for all his life. She was the final knife in his heart. He… — Robert Goolrick Life Copy Share Image
“Every exchange making him feel like an idiot, making him draw his spine up straight and making him fiddle with his hair,… — Robert Goolrick Idiot Copy Share Image
“He would move from city to city as he had always done, using people, soiling them like sheets and walking away, to… — Robert Goolrick Mind Copy Share Image
“Their exotic splendor transported Ralph and Catherine into their own Xanadu, a place that was wholly and entirely the kingdom of their… — Robert Goolrick Catherine Xanadu Copy Share Image
“I loved kissing them on the mouth, the taste of their tongues. I think kissing is what separated us from the animals… — Robert Goolrick Kissing Copy Share Image
“There was so much we had done to ourselves, so much we said in our sessions that our hearts were rent with… — Robert Goolrick Grief Copy Share Image
There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward… — Robert Goolrick Doe Copy Share Image
“Soul murder, the psychiatrists call it, the sexual violation of children. Unimaginably small boys. Boys whose heads do not reach to their… — Robert Goolrick Children Copy Share Image
When you're young, and you head out to wonderful, everything is fresh and bright as a brand new penny, but before you… — Robert Goolrick Brands Copy Share Image
“Sometime, Mrs. Truitt, we work very hard at something, we exhaust ourselves to accomplish something which seems vital to us." He chose… — Robert Goolrick Effort Copy Share Image
“Standing in the center of the crowd, his solitude was enormous. He felt that in all the vast and frozen space in… — Robert Goolrick Life Copy Share Image
“But I told my grandmother, and she listened, and then she said, "Don't ever tell this story to anybody else. If you… — Robert Goolrick Family Copy Share Image
“She believed in the miraculous. Or she had, until she reached an age when, all of a sudden, she realized that the… — Robert Goolrick Heart Copy Share Image
“Sometimes she sat and let her mind go blank and her eyes go out of focus, so that she watched the slow,… — Robert Goolrick Alone Copy Share Image
“She had agreed to marry him without realizing that marriage brought a kind a simple pleasure, a pleasure in the continued company… — Robert Goolrick Business Copy Share Image
Catherine Land liked the beginnings of things. The pure white possibility of the empty room, the first kiss, the first swipe at… — Robert Goolrick Awful Copy Share Image
“... It was a story of people who don't choose life over death until it's too late to know the difference, people… — Robert Goolrick Children Copy Share Image
“Even if we choose to sever the ties to all we ever knew as home, to redefine the spaces we live in,… — Robert Goolrick Love Copy Share Image
“Her true heart, however, was buried so far inside her, so gone beneath the vast blanket of her lies and deceptions and… — Robert Goolrick Every day Copy Share Image
“Learning became her. She loved the smell of the books, the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world… — Robert Goolrick Books Copy Share Image
“What makes a child of four realize that something awful is going to happen? (168)” — Robert Goolrick Children Copy Share Image
“Men only give you what they give you...when they know they can't give you what you want.” — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
“I think kissing is what seperates us from the animals and makes us divine. ” — Robert Goolrick Kissing Copy Share Image
“She knew there were parts of the past you had to let go of, certain lands that were irredeemably lost, sorrowfully lost,… — Robert Goolrick Heart Copy Share Image
“...she had brought harm to him, in the believe that nothing mattered, that no moment had consequences beyond the moment itself. She… — Robert Goolrick Faith Copy Share Image
“But I don't think that's the case for a lot of people. For a lot of people, for a lot the people… — Robert Goolrick Choice Copy Share Image
“She had been adept at the beginning and the end of things, and now she saw that whatever pleasures life had to… — Robert Goolrick Heart Copy Share Image
I would give anything, anything, to be the man to whom this has not happened. I can not accommodate myself to it.… — Robert Goolrick Abuse Copy Share Image
“We all wanted to be somebody else. Somebody braver, or more handsome, or smarter. It’s what children want. It’s what you grow… — Robert Goolrick Children Copy Share Image
