“That's the problem with belief: If you rely on it too heavily, you have a lot of picking up to do after you find out you were wrong.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from 600 Hours of Edward
“The complaint lies with me, not with you. I never could find a way to make you proud of me, and at some point, I think I stopped trying. When you were here, I blamed you for that. I think now, the failure is mine... It occurs to me that death is a funny thing - not funny in a laughter sort of way, but in a twisty sort of way. It's the people who are left behind who have to grapple with the regret. The one who is gone is just gone. Wherever you are... I hope you have regret about what happened yesterday.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from 600 Hours of Edward
“As I was saying, you have made the decision to let people into your life. Part of that involves being disappointed by them sometimes. Part of that involves being thrilled by them sometimes. It’s up to you to decide whether the risk is worth the reward.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from 600 Hours of Edward
“I think that people who stand up for what they believe in, no matter how unpopular, should be celebrated, not cast aside.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from 600 Hours of Edward
“I prefer facts, but sometimes sense is all you have to go on.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from 600 Hours of Edward
“I hope you do exist. Even though hope is as intangible as belief, I am not hostile to it.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from 600 Hours of Edward
“I tried eHarmony, because I liked the white hair and glasses of that guy on the commercials, and his manner was gentle, but eHarmony told me that the system and it's twenty nine levels of compatibility couldn't find anyone for me.
That hurt my feelings.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from 600 Hours of Edward
“I think a high grammar standard may be a losing fight on the Internet.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from 600 Hours of Edward
“Jack Bauer is fooling his audience, but he's not fooling me.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from 600 Hours of Edward
“Photographs, it seems to me, are both moments in time and bits of memory.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from 600 Hours of Edward
“We never have that kind of fun now. Thinking of that made me sad. I hope we can have fun again sometime. I found out that I still know how. Maybe you still know how too.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from 600 Hours of Edward
“Dinner is leftover spaghetti, with meat sauce, warmed up in the microwave. I eat spaghetti nine times a week, every week, and it is my favorite food. And yet, tonight, I wonder if I'm in a rut.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from 600 Hours of Edward
“hope is as intangible as belief,”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from 600 Hours of Edward
“you have made the decision to let people into your life. Part of that involves being disappointed by them sometimes. Part of that involves being thrilled by them sometimes. It’s up to you to decide whether the risk is worth the reward.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from 600 Hours of Edward
“I feel bad for Donna Middleton. But I do not feel sorry for her. This is a fine distinction, I think, but it feels right to me. I do not think Donna Middleton would appreciate my feeling sorry for her.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from 600 Hours of Edward
“I think that people who stand up for what they believe in, no matter how unpopular, should be celebrated, not cast aside. I believe that my ideas about green highlighters and yellow highlighters could have served the Muscular Dystrophy Association well, if only they were given a proper and considerate airing.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from 600 Hours of Edward
“allow yourself this moment of sadness to mourn the loss of a true original, but let yourself be happy from now on that we were privileged to know him…”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from 600 Hours of Edward
“I have not seen a man over there, and so I wonder whether my neighbor has a husband or her boy has a father. I would be sad to think that he doesn’t, but having a father isn’t necessarily a good thing. I have one, and while he did buy this house for me to live in, he also has his lawyer send me a lot of letters and may not have given any thought to radiant floor heating.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from 600 Hours of Edward
“I prefer rock music—my favorites are R.E.M. and Matthew Sweet—but I think that if Dr. Buckley played Matthew Sweet, some of her patients would not like it. Matthew Sweet has a song called “Sick of Myself,” and I am pretty sure that is exactly the wrong song name for a therapist’s waiting room.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from 600 Hours of Edward
“Did you know that there are NFL team colors available in paint? I am intrigued by this. I like the Dallas Cowboys, but I don’t think that I would want their colors on the garage.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from 600 Hours of Edward
“she’s aggressive and grabs my wiener, though, I may have to come up with another plan.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from 600 Hours of Edward
“I am nervous about this game. The Cowboys’ best player, quarterback Tony Romo, is not going to play because he has a broken finger. The Cowboys ought to be able to win without Tony Romo because the St. Louis Rams are terrible, but I am still nervous.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from 600 Hours of Edward
“I offer to shake hands with Kyle, but he insists on a high five, something I’ve never done. I’ve seen the Dallas Cowboys do it, and it looks like great fun.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from 600 Hours of Edward
“I know about how you need to be left alone to do work. I know why. This job, you'll be allowed to do that. You'll report to me, but when you're here, you'll be working on tasks that I assign and that you'll be able to do by yourself.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from 600 Hours of Edward
“Crying comes from many sources and has many causes: anger, frustration, sadness, lack of sleep. I think I am suffering from all four, and I think that is why I have been crying.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from 600 Hours of Edward
“Dr. Buckley says that all people have things they are good at and not so good at and that if I like someone, I should appreciate his or her good points and forgive the bad. This makes sense to me. Dr. Buckley is a very logical woman.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from 600 Hours of Edward
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“I elbow my way through the mass of people to get to my locker because there's something immensely satisfying about the toughest part of my arm connecting with the softest part of everyone else.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from Cracked Up to Be
“Nevertheless, when it is your lot to have to endure something that is (or seems to you) worse than the ordinary lot of mankind, Spinoza's principle of thinking about the whole, or at any rate about larger matters than your own grief, is a useful one. There are even times when it is comforting to reflect that human life, with all that is contains of evil and suffering, is an infinitesimal part of the life of the universe. Such reflections may not suffice to constitute a religion, but in a painful world they are a help towards sanity and an antidote to the paralysis of utter despair. - about Spinoza”
― Bertrand Russell, quote from A History of Western Philosophy
“Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation.”
― J.M. Coetzee, quote from Waiting for the Barbarians
“Büyüdükçe ve peşinden koştuğu her emeli elinden kaçırdıkça bütün şeylerin geçici olduğunu karar verdi.”
― Elif Shafak, quote from Honor
“They don't realise that they've changed; they think it's the world that changed.”
― Ryū Murakami, quote from Coin Locker Babies
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