All Dan Chaon Quotes
- In the end, there probably isn't much difference between being in love and acting like you're in love. Acting
- What if you believed that everything in life was like a prize? What if you thought of the world as a big random drawing, and… Alive
- It's not like it ruined my life, I was going to say, but then I didn't. Because it occurred to me that maybe it had… Everyone
- Sometimes he thinks that if he could only trace the path of his life carefully enough, everything would become clear. The ways that he screwed… Awhile
- At a certain point, you must be able to slip loose. At a certain point, you found that you had been set free. You could… Able
- I can't understand how people can settle for having just one life. I remember we were in English class and we were talking about that… Bent
- How can you come to understand your life when even the beginning is so complicated: a single cell imprinted with the color of your eyes… Alive
- There are so many people we could become, and we leave such a trail of bodies through our teens and twenties that it's hard to… Abandon
- I never wanted to get to a point in my life where I knew what was going to happen next. I felt like most people… All
- So this was what it felt like to lose yourself. Again. To let go of your future and let it rise up and up until… Anymore
- It had occurred to him that if the undead don't realize that they are dead, he might easily be one of them himself. Dead
- Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future. Alive
- A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking. Conclusion
- There is a stage you reach, Deagle thinks, a time somewhere in early middle age, when your past ceases to be about yourself. Your connection… Acquaintance
- It is not like a premonition of death. It is as if she died a long time ago, and she just now remembered it. Ago