Robert Goolrick

“How life goes in bad directions when your heart is asleep.”

— Robert Goolrick

The thing is, all memory is fiction,

— Robert Goolrick

“The company increased as light was let into the house. But”

— Robert Goolrick

If love drove people mad, what would lack of love do?

— Robert Goolrick

Nothing says hell has to be fire.

— Robert Goolrick

“Their love for me was both a myth and a torture and so I wrecked everything. I hurt them, and I left…

— Robert Goolrick

“She was just a simple, honest woman standing in the ruin of a late winter garden, waiting for the spring. “Catherine.”

— Robert Goolrick

“He wanted to slice her open and lie inside the warm blood of her body.”

— Robert Goolrick

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

“You wreck your own life and then, very gently, you wreck the lives of those around you.”

— Robert Goolrick

“Children remember staying up late. Grownups think about getting up early”

— Robert Goolrick

I think kissing is what separates us from the animals and makes us divine.

— Robert Goolrick

“He was drowsy. “I hope, I hope in my heart, that the fire is out. It burned too hot.”

— Robert Goolrick

“...she had brought harm to him, in the believe that nothing mattered, that no moment had consequences beyond the moment itself. She…

— Robert Goolrick

“She knew there were parts of the past you had to let go of, certain lands that were irredeemably lost, sorrowfully lost,…

— Robert Goolrick

“There was so much we had done to ourselves, so much we said in our sessions that our hearts were rent with…

— Robert Goolrick

There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward…

— Robert Goolrick

“He would move from city to city as he had always done, using people, soiling them like sheets and walking away, to…

— Robert Goolrick

There is an ache in my heart for the imagined beauty of a life I haven't had, from which I had been…

— Robert Goolrick

“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

“I loved kissing them on the mouth, the taste of their tongues. I think kissing is what separated us from the animals…

— Robert Goolrick

“Sometimes she sat and let her mind go blank and her eyes go out of focus, so that she watched the slow,…

— Robert Goolrick

“She believed in the miraculous. Or she had, until she reached an age when, all of a sudden, she realized that the…

— Robert Goolrick

“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

“Sometime, Mrs. Truitt, we work very hard at something, we exhaust ourselves to accomplish something which seems vital to us." He chose…

— Robert Goolrick

“Standing in the center of the crowd, his solitude was enormous. He felt that in all the vast and frozen space in…

— Robert Goolrick

“If you had been there you would not have noticed. You would not have noticed your own stillness in this thin slice…

— Robert Goolrick

When you're young, and you head out to wonderful, everything is fresh and bright as a brand new penny, but before you…

— Robert Goolrick

“Soul murder, the psychiatrists call it, the sexual violation of children. Unimaginably small boys. Boys whose heads do not reach to their…

— Robert Goolrick

“There is in this valley a beating heart. It is always and ever there. And when I am gone, it will beat…

— Robert Goolrick

Catherine Land liked the beginnings of things. The pure white possibility of the empty room, the first kiss, the first swipe at…

— Robert Goolrick

“The thing is, all memory is fiction. You have to remember that. Of course, there are things that actually, certifiably happened, things…

— Robert Goolrick

“Learning became her. She loved the smell of the books, the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world…

— Robert Goolrick

“But this here, the valley of sweet Virginia, this is the blissful shore. There is no more to reach for. But, humming,…

— Robert Goolrick

“As you have been on the road, what have you been hearing from readers about A RELIABLE WIFE? RG: The most interesting…

— Robert Goolrick

“Even if we choose to sever the ties to all we ever knew as home, to redefine the spaces we live in,…

— Robert Goolrick

“Her true heart, however, was buried so far inside her, so gone beneath the vast blanket of her lies and deceptions and…

— Robert Goolrick

“Men only give you what they give you...when they know they can't give you what you want.”

— Robert Goolrick

“What makes a child of four realize that something awful is going to happen? (168)”

— Robert Goolrick

“I think kissing is what seperates us from the animals and makes us divine. ”

— Robert Goolrick