Quotes from book

Hearts in Atlantis

“Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.”

“Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.”

“Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity”

“Time heals all wounds.”

“You might question a winkle - a feeling that came to you right out of the blue - but you didn’t question knowing.”

“There’s always someone who knows something.”

“Hearts are tough, Most times they don't break. Most times they are only bend”

“Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map…. A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.”

“A change is as good as a rest.”

“Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.”

“It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting.”

“And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out.”

“Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.”

“I cried, all right. I sat there at my desk and I cried for her, for me, for both of us, for all of us. I can't remember hurting any more in my life than I did then. Hearts are tough, she said, most times hearts don't break, and I'm sure that's right … but what about then? What about who we were then? What about hearts in Atlantis?”

“I don't think time matters much if you're a Breaker.”

“Although it is difficult to believe, the sixties are not fictional; they actually happened.”