“Heroes don’t always wear capes, badges, or uniforms. Sometimes, they support those who do.”
― Andrea Randall, quote from In the Stillness
“It feels like a lifetime ago that I was saying goodbye to you...
God, I miss you.
I love you so much, Natalie, and when I get home I’m going to keep loving you until you tell me to stop. But don’t, please. Don’t tell me to stop.
I love you.
With everything.”
― Andrea Randall, quote from In the Stillness
“But, the thing about guilt is, no one can take away for you; you have to unpack it yourself.”
― Andrea Randall, quote from In the Stillness
“His body came home, but his soul had been devoured in the firefight of a godless desert.”
― Andrea Randall, quote from In the Stillness
“I would go through every single second of that again it it meant I still got to feel that kind of love – even for a moment.”
― Andrea Randall, quote from In the Stillness
“Sometimes, the things people don't say speak louder than the things they do, though.”
― Andrea Randall, quote from In the Stillness
“Do you love me?”
… “I never stopped, Nat. Not for a day.”
― Andrea Randall, quote from In the Stillness
“Guilt is intense. Suffocating. A brick, tied quietly around your ankles while you sleep. You never fall slowly into guilt-you wake up with little time to take your last breath before being pulled under.”
― Andrea Randall, quote from In the Stillness
“You two had something special – it’s the circumstances that were shitty.”
― Andrea Randall, quote from In the Stillness
“It only looks like such a mess because it’s not over yet.”
― Andrea Randall, quote from In the Stillness
“You made him feel special, Ryker…” Ryker smiles as he leans back on the arm of his couch, still holding my hand.
“He is special, Natalie…he’s yours.”
― Andrea Randall, quote from In the Stillness
“Change never comes slowly, brewing on the horizon. It's always in a second. Balanced on the rip of a razor blade, in empty pill bottles, behind two pink lines, or learning that one of your children is slowly slipping into a world of silence.”
― Andrea Randall, quote from In the Stillness
“Because I love him, and you don't hurt the people you love. Not on purpose.”
― Andrea Randall, quote from In the Stillness
“He keeps doing that.”
“What?” She laughs.
“Kissing your forehead.”
“Yeah . . . he does.” I can’t stop my grin.
“Does it bother you? I can hear your smile, you know.”
“Not really. It doesn’t, like, mean anything. It’s just . . . it’s Ryker.”
― Andrea Randall, quote from In the Stillness
“…When you love someone, you love them head-to-toe and inside out because… well, because you can’t help it? I love you for a reason, Natalie. You’re mine and I’m yours.”
― Andrea Randall, quote from In the Stillness
“They took his soul over there, fuckers, and left me with the breathing carcass.”
― Andrea Randall, quote from In the Stillness
“You know that split second? The one where you decide if you’re going to just smile and continue looking around, or chance an encounter with a stranger? It’s a dangerous moment. It changes absolutely everything.”
― Andrea Randall, quote from In the Stillness
“Heroes don’t always wear capes, badges, or uniforms. Sometimes, they support those who do.”
― Andrea Randall, quote from In the Stillness
“I keep cutting. For him. For me. For ruining lives.
Apparently, I’m good at that.”
― Andrea Randall, quote from In the Stillness
“It’s over now, Ryker.”
“That’s the thing, Natalie… it’s never really over.”
― Andrea Randall, quote from In the Stillness
“How’d you get through it? The uncertainty, I mean.”
I was never uncertain about our hearts.”
― Andrea Randall, quote from In the Stillness
“I love you so much, Natalie, and when I get home I’m going to keep loving you until you tell me to stop. But don’t, please. Don’t tell me to stop. I love you. With everything.”
― Andrea Randall, quote from In the Stillness
“I love you,” he says as he meets me in the doorway.
“Just because you say it doesn’t make it true, you know.”
― Andrea Randall, quote from In the Stillness
“I just...I've fantasized about peace and quiet for so long, dreamt about being left alone...but when the TV was off, and the sun was down...I'm in a full sob right now. I've just never felt so alone, and I couldn't take it.”
― Andrea Randall, quote from In the Stillness
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“John Carmack was a late talker. His parents were concerned until one day in 1971, when the fifteen-month-old boy waddled into the living room holding a sponge and uttered not just a single word but a complete sentence: “Here’s your loofah, Daddy.” It was as if he didn’t want to mince words until he had something sensible to say.”
― quote from Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
“But at home, that same day he'd jumped into the fountain, he'd gotten so anxious, pacing around the living room listening to his parents try to calm him, that he suddenly just lost it completely and slapped his face. He immediately started crying, confused and guilty, looking up at his parents like he had no idea how it happened. And, really, that's the way it always was with the hitting. It would happen so fast, his body shaking to release the tension that built up from all the thoughts swirling through his mind and all the air he was having trouble breathing and all the loud beating of his own heart ringing in his ears. It had to get out and that was the path it chose. Slap. Instant relief.”
― John Corey Whaley, quote from Highly Illogical Behavior
“Children are the quickest to trust because they have no concept of the depravity of our species.”
― A.R. Torre, quote from The Girl in 6E
“The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living. Only when we are in the midst of conflict does the shallowness and vapidness of much of our lives become apparent. Trivia dominates our conversations and increasingly our airwaves. And war is an enticing elixir. It gives us resolve, a cause. It allows us to be noble. And those who have the least meaning in their lives, the impoverished refugees in Gaza, the disenfranchised North African immigrants in France, even the legions of young who live in the splendid indolence and safety of the industrialized world, are all susceptible to war's appeal.”
― Chris Hedges, quote from War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
“Si la velocidad orbital de la Tierra fuera mayor que la raíz cuadrada del doble de su velocidad actual, nuestro planeta alcanzaría una «velocidad de escape» y, como cabe suponer, escaparía del sistema solar. Podemos”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, quote from Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
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