Craig Lancaster · 298 pages
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“Any fighter knows that regret that doesn't inform your future is wasted emotion. If you lose and dwell on the missed opportunity rather than the chances to come, you're finished.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter
“I don’t feel sorry for myself. I’m not owed any of that. The opportunities were there, and I did not take them. I find it difficult to live with this sometimes.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter
“Ernest Hemingway talked about how writing is opening up a vein and bleeding onto the page. You prepared to do that?”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter
“Hugo and I sat together in the chapel and didn’t say a word to each other. We’d already said them all, in better times and in better places.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter
“nobody really gets what they deserve from this life, that it’s all a question of what you can take while you have the time.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter
“The one thing Hugo did better than almost anyone else, the one constant for much of his life, was being taken away in a most ignominious way.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter
“You can make yourself crazy, refiguring it all after the fact. You did what you thought was best at the time. You helped a friend. That’s what matters.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter
“this much, too: never again will we keep our hearts waiting.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter
“I cleared the air again. “Oh, I’m plenty stupid. But not on this. And I’m not cruel. Don’t let him fight again. Hell, you shouldn’t have let him fight tonight. I’m all for that. But it’s not going to kill you to let him go with the knowledge that nobody ever knocked him out cold. Besides, it isn’t me you have to convince anyway.” Squeaky ran the gym, ran the Tuesday night fights, but his daddy, Frank, was the boss. He knew this sure as I did.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter
“He thought, I know what my idea of heaven would be, if by heaven we mean a place of bliss in which to pass eternity: a sanctuary where one might chain-smoke without impairment of breathing, destruction of the lungs, or damage to the heart, light each fresh cigarette from the glowing butt of its predecessor, and drink ice-free but hundred-proof chilled vodka laced with two drops of angostura and a gill of newly opened Perrier endlessly, with increasing euphoria, until a peak of joy and ease was reached but without any subsequent nausea or pain or dehydration or oblivion…”
― Barbara Vine, quote from A Fatal Inversion
“The more I practiced kindness and humility, the more the world seemed to appear friendly and manageable.”
― Noah Levine, quote from Dharma Punx: A Memoir
“I was just another lost soul screaming through the paper thin hotel walls into the ears of the fucked.”
― Craig Stone, quote from Life Knocks
“She paced her room all day, tossed sleeplessly in her bed all night. At dusk, she sat in her window and poured all her longing and desire into her songs, hoping he would somehow hear her and return.
And he did.”
― Kate Forsyth, quote from Bitter Greens
“God who lives in you gives you the grace to move beyond your deepest wounds and say “You are forgiven ” and “I am forgiven.” If you allow Him He will give you a fresh start – right now.”
― quote from When Your Past Is Hurting Your Present: Getting Beyond Fears That Hold You Back
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