“Love, in the universal sense, is unconditional acceptance. In the individual sense, the one-on-one sense, try this: we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it. The intensity of the love is weighted by how much better.”
― Chris Crutcher, quote from Deadline
“But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.”
― Chris Crutcher, quote from Deadline
“...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it.”
― Chris Crutcher, quote from Deadline
“You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could.”
― Chris Crutcher, quote from Deadline
“Beware the short terminal guy with nothing to lose.”
― Chris Crutcher, quote from Deadline
“If someone's different from you and it scares you or makes you mad, that's God telling you to take a closer look. If you're scared or mad, that's about you, not about the person who scares you or angers you.”
― Chris Crutcher, quote from Deadline
“So you didn’t tell me it was a messed-up idea to keep this all a secret because. . .”
“Because experience is the only teacher,” Hey-Soos says. “Even if I could have told you, it would have been a lecture. Why do you think kids don’t listen to their parents, or people don’t leave churches and do what the preacher tells them? There’s only one thing that’s universal.”
“What’s that?”
“The truth.”
― Chris Crutcher, quote from Deadline
“I'd rather be a flash than a slowly burning ember.”
― Chris Crutcher, quote from Deadline
“I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left,I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few days, get into my early productive stages about the third week of school, go through my midlife crisis during Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, redouble my efforts at productivity and think about my legacy, say, Easter, and start cashing in my 401(k)s a couple weeks before Memorial Day. ”
― Chris Crutcher, quote from Deadline
“I think when you’re dying you start looking for important things in the corners. You can’t let anything that seems even semi-important pass, because it passes forever. Things take on meaning.”
― Chris Crutcher, quote from Deadline
“Experience is the only teacher,” Hey-Soos says. “Even if I could have told you, it would have been a lecture. Why do you think kids don’t listen to their parents, or people don’t leave churches and do what the preacher tells them?”
― Chris Crutcher, quote from Deadline
“The only truly ruined people are those who believe they are.”
― Chris Crutcher, quote from Deadline
“Tonight sometime the full reality will dawn on him, but he's like me: the guy you want at the site where the plane went down.”
― Chris Crutcher, quote from Deadline
“There isn't an entity in the universe that does not know about love.”
― Chris Crutcher, quote from Deadline
“The distances across that atom, in relative measure, are the same as the distances across the universe. So there is no big and no little and I’m left to realize that the pain I feel, relative to me, is as big as two galaxies moving apart in the universe,”
― Chris Crutcher, quote from Deadline
“So you didn’t tell me it was a messed-up idea to keep this all a secret because. . .”
Because experience is the only teacher,” Hey-Soos says. “Even if I could have told you, it would have been a lecture. Why do you think kids don’t listen to their parents, or people don’t leave churches and do what the preacher tells them? There’s only one thing that’s universal.”
What’s that?”
The truth.”
― Chris Crutcher, quote from Deadline
“The first time I heard the saying 'Live every day like you are going to live forever and every day like is your last.' I thought it was one of those unsolvable story problems from my fifth grade arithmetic books, but it turned out to be the truest thing about my year." -Chris Crutcher Deadline”
― Chris Crutcher, quote from Deadline
“Love in the universal sense, is unconditional acceptance. In the individual sense, the one on one sense, try this: we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it. The intensity of that love is weighted by how much better." ~ Chris Crutcher from his novel, Deadline.”
― Chris Crutcher, quote from Deadline
“I'm sorry. I can't do this. I thought I could but I can't. My favorite professor at the university said he gets his piece of therapeutic information every time he boards an airplane. The flight attendant says if the oxygen mask drops down, be sure to put on your own before helping anyone with theirs. I'm afraid I haven't put mine on.”
― Chris Crutcher, quote from Deadline
Chris Crutcher
Born place: in Dayton, Ohio, The United States
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“I believe we were discussing your dissatisfaction with life as the most popular man in London.'
Her voice rose on the last four words, and Colin realized he'd been scolded. Soundly.
Which he found extraordinarily irritating. 'I don't know why I thought you'd understand,' he bit off, hating the childish tinge in his voice but completely unable to edit it out.
'I'm sorry,' she said, 'but it's a little difficult for me to sit here and listen to you complain that your life is nothing.'
'I didn't say that.'
'You most certainly did!'
'I said I *have* nothing,' he corrected, trying not to wince as he realized how stupid that sounded.
'You have more than anyone I know,' she said, jabbing him in the shoulder. 'But if you don't realize that, then maybe you are correct - your life is nothing.”
― Julia Quinn, quote from Romancing Mister Bridgerton
“Then he got more books. He saved all the books.”
― Dave Eggers, quote from Zeitoun
“Maybe. Anyway, some men get what they want.
No man. Or perhaps only briefly so as to lose it. Or perhaps only to prove to the dreamer that the world of his longing made real is no longer that world at all. ”
― Cormac McCarthy, quote from Cities of the Plain
“The wacky thing about those bad guys is that you can't count on them to be obvious. They forget to wax their mustaches and goatees, leave their horns at home, send their black hats to the dry cleaner's. They're funny like that.”
― Jim Butcher, quote from White Night
“Her Pan-Cake makeup was cracking like a dried-out Dakota lake bed.”
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