Joe Hill: Trending quotes (page 2)

“Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers.”

“It was like wondering how evil had come into the world or what happens to a person after he dies: an interesting philosophical exercise, but also curiously pointless, since evil and death happened, regardless of the why and the how and what-it-meant.”

“Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.”

“What a blessed if painful thing, this business of being alive.”

“The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.”

“No one looks too closely at a librarian. People are afraid of going blind from the glare of-ssso much compressed wisdom.”

“Innocence ain't all it's cracked up to be, you know. Innocent little kids rip the wings off flies, because they don't know any better. innocence.”

“It's like in the Bible. You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it."
"What part of the Bible is that from?" Ig asked her. "The Gospel of Keith Richards?”

“… people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their imagination and building it. Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.”

“Him and God are supposed to be at war with each other. But if God hates sin and Satan punishes the sinners, aren’t they working the same side of the street? Aren’t the judge and the executioner on the same team?”

“Some things you didn't give away, no matter how much you owed.”

“Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.”

“The language of sin was universal, the original Esperanto.”

“She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English.”

“I didn't know the inner me was hungry," I said to Art.
"That's because it already starved to death.”

“You know someone for a while and then one day a hole opens underneath them, and they fall out of your world.”

“I don't know, maybe you'd be more interested in me if I were a book.”

“You loved me as hard as you knew how. I'd give anything to go back and love you better…”

“If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all.”