Best Amy Hempel Quotes
- Just once in my life--oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my life? Ever Wanted
- He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good. Funny
- I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands. In the course of the experiment, that chimp had a baby. Imagine how her… Animal
- A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours… Ahead
- I think you would like Warren. He drinks Courvoisier in a Coke can, and has a laugh like you'd find in a cartoon bubble. Bubble
- When my mother died, my father's early widowhood gave him social cachet he would not have had if they had divorced. He was a bigger… Attached
- I exaggerated even before I began to exaggerate, because it's true — nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be. Bad
- Look at me. My concerns-are they spiritual, do you think, or carnal? Come on. We've read our Shakespeare. Carnal
- The other day I was playing Scrabble. I saw that I could close the space in D-E- -Y. I had an N and an F.… Chose
- I meet a person, and in my mind I'm saying three minutes; I give you three minutes to show me the spark. Give
- Since his mother died I have seen him steam a cucumber thinking it was zucchini. That's the kind of thing that turns my heart right… Cucumber
- I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence. Days
- if it's true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you… Alive
- It is possible to imagine a person so entirely that the image resists attempts to dislodge it. Attempts
- Maybe this is not a come-down-from-the-ledge story. But I tell it with the thought that the woman on the ledge will ask herself a question,… Ask
- I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand before a river in the dark where hundreds of… Blink
- I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back. Calling
- I have written letters that are failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies. Trying to reach a person means asking the… Asking
- I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself. Funny
- Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater. Sinking
- Dreams: the place most of us get what we need. Dream
- I know that homes burn and that you should think what to save before they start to. Not because, in the heat of it, everything… Bother
- I get rational when I panic. Get Rational
- The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss--you have gone and lost something… Glad
- There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity. Luck