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
“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
“We tend to go on loving the things the people who loved us loved. They are invested with soul, even if the… — Robert Goolrick Loving Copy Share Image
“She had no one in the world. Her whole world, what was left of it, was here, and there was no way… — Robert Goolrick Heart Copy Share Image
I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and… — Robert Goolrick Abuse 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
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
I know that I am not the only person who is alone in the world. I know that others sorrow in the… — Robert Goolrick Cat Copy Share Image
It is the tenderness that breaks our hearts. The loveliness that leaves us stranded on the shore, watching the boats sail away.… — Robert Goolrick Boat 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 Story people 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
I think kissing is what separates us from the animals and makes us divine. — Robert Goolrick Animal Copy Share Image
“The company increased as light was let into the house. But” — Robert Goolrick Business Copy Share Image
“He was drowsy. “I hope, I hope in my heart, that the fire is out. It burned too hot.” — Robert Goolrick Fire Copy Share Image
If love drove people mad, what would lack of love do? — Robert Goolrick Lack of love Copy Share Image
“How life goes in bad directions when your heart is asleep.” — Robert Goolrick Asleep Copy Share Image
“He wanted to slice her open and lie inside the warm blood of her body.” — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
It's a sad thing to watch your best friend turn into somebody you don't know anymore. Or even want to know. — Robert Goolrick Best friend Copy Share Image
“Here's another thing: There are certain wounds that never heal, certain hurts that never leave you alone, like a broken bone that… — Robert Goolrick Emotional pain Copy Share Image
“Their love for me was both a myth and a torture and so I wrecked everything. I hurt them, and I left… — Robert Goolrick Friendship Copy Share Image
“Now it's your land. But it's important, at least to me,that you remember that it's not just your land. There is a… — Robert Goolrick History Copy Share Image
“In times of grief, you're waiting for something to happen, but the thing you're waiting for has already taken place.” — Robert Goolrick Death Copy Share Image
“We want to do something with the time we have, something that will give that time a certain meaning, a certain weight.” — Robert Goolrick Inspirational Copy Share Image
“...desire had its exaggerated and dramatic pleasures, but he was bored by the endless scenes and recantations. Love was simply the same… — Robert Goolrick Desire Copy Share Image
“In a life, in any life, bad things happen. Many good things happen, of course, we know what they are-joy, tenderness, success… — Robert Goolrick Bad thing Copy Share Image
“I heard this old country guy say once, "I think you decide pretty early on how happy you're going to be, and… — Robert Goolrick Personal choice Copy Share Image
“Learning became her. She loved the smell of the book from the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the… — Robert Goolrick Book Copy Share Image
“He loved her so much he felt his bones would break. Loving her was like lying in a bed of nettles, and… — Robert Goolrick Cold water Copy Share Image
“If you had been there you would not have noticed. You would not have noticed your own stillness in this thin slice… — Robert Goolrick Stillness Copy Share Image
“There is in this valley a beating heart. It is always and ever there. And when I am gone, it will beat… — Robert Goolrick Children Copy Share Image
“Then there was survival. There was going on, as she had always gone on, without much joy, against her will, against her… — Robert Goolrick Kindness Copy Share Image
“The thousand thousand grasses, dry now in the late-summer heat, bristle like the brittle pages of a thousand ancient books being turned… — Robert Goolrick Books Copy Share Image
“As you have been on the road, what have you been hearing from readers about A RELIABLE WIFE? RG: The most interesting… — Robert Goolrick Age Copy Share Image
“But this here, the valley of sweet Virginia, this is the blissful shore. There is no more to reach for. But, humming,… — Robert Goolrick Goodness Of The Heart Copy Share Image
“The thing is, all memory is fiction. You have to remember that. Of course, there are things that actually, certifiably happened, things… — Robert Goolrick Big things Copy Share Image
“How most people carry on is a mystery. What they talk about at supper. How they can stand to sit in front… — Robert Goolrick Day life Copy Share Image
