“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 Personal choice 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
“... 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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“Play the hand you have, Antonio, that’s all anybody expects. And it’s a pretty good hand.” “I’m” — Robert Goolrick Pretty good 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 Using people 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 Spirituality Copy Share Image
“Children remember staying up late. Grownups think about getting up early” — Robert Goolrick 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 had been adept at the beginning and the end of things, and now she saw that whatever pleasures life had to… — Robert Goolrick Life 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
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
“She was the beautiful, lethal, insinuating spider he had waited for all his life.” — Robert Goolrick Life 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
“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
“What makes a child of four realize that something awful is going to happen? (168)” — Robert Goolrick Children 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
“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 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
“Every exchange making him feel like an idiot, making him draw his spine up straight and making him fiddle with his hair,… — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
