“She had no one in the world. Her whole world, what was left of it, was here, and there was no way… — Robert Goolrick Whole world Copy Share Image
The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the… — Robert Goolrick Bitter 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
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
“Be not dishearten’d—Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible. —WALT WHITMAN, “Over the… — Robert Goolrick Freedom 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 Honest woman 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
“You wreck your own life and then, very gently, you wreck the lives of those around you.” — Robert Goolrick Life 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
“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
“But there was no use. There was no point. It was just a story. It was just a story of people, of… — Robert Goolrick 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 Copy Share Image
“Somewhere in the pain there is pleasure, and that is the most awful part, perhaps. (170)” — Robert Goolrick Pain Copy Share Image
“He walked home, completely at peace. He knew now he would go on doing the things he was doing -- going to… — Robert Goolrick Journey 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 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
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
“I think kissing is what seperates us from the animals and makes us divine. ” — Robert Goolrick 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 Life 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
I wasn't safe. I wasn't permanent. My life was a fiction I had created, like an alien who comes to earth and… — Robert Goolrick Affection 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 Time 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
“Sometime, Mrs. Truitt, we work very hard at something, we exhaust ourselves to accomplish something which seems vital to us." He chose… — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image