“Yes. Childhood is the most dangerous place of all. If we had to live there forever, we wouldn't last very long.” — Robert Goolrick Child 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
“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
“Play the hand you have, Antonio, that’s all anybody expects. And it’s a pretty good hand.” “I’m” — Robert Goolrick Football 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 Funeral 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
“Somewhere in the pain there is pleasure, and that is the most awful part, perhaps. (170)” — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
“She was the beautiful, lethal, insinuating spider he had waited for all his life.” — Robert Goolrick Life 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
“Every exchange making him feel like an idiot, making him draw his spine up straight and making him fiddle with his hair,… — Robert Goolrick Idiot 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
“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 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
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
“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
“...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 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
“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
“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
“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
“Then there was survival. There was going on, as she had always gone on, without much joy, against her will, against her… — Robert Goolrick Heart 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
I know that I am not the only person who is alone in the world. I know that others sorrow in the… — Robert Goolrick 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 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
The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the… — Robert Goolrick 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
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
“She had been adept at the beginning and the end of things, and now she saw that whatever pleasures life had to… — Robert Goolrick Heart 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
“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 Choice 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
“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
“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 Choice 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 Copy Share Image
