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Kevin Brockmeier Quotes

I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years Picture Quote #1

Anyone who has ever experienced love knows that you can have too much or too little. You can have love that parches, love that defeats. You can have love measured out in the wrong proportions. It’s like your sunlight and water - the wrong kind of love is just as likely to stifle hope as it is to nourish it Picture Quote #1

I keep an ongoing list of my fifty favorite books, which I recalibrate whenever I discover a new one that seems to demand a spot there Picture Quote #1

There are times in your life when, despite the steel weight of your memories and the sadness that seems to lie at your feet like a shadow, you suddenly and strangely feel perfectly okay Picture Quote #1

A successful song comes to sing itself inside the listener. It is cellular and seismic, a wave coalescing in the mind and in the flesh. There is a message outside and a message inside, and those messages are the same, like the pat and thud of two heartbeats, one within you, one surrounding. The message of the lullaby is that it’s okay to dim the eyes for a time, to lose sight of yourself as you sleep and as you grow: if you drift, it says, you’ll drift ashore: if you fall, you will fall into place Picture Quote #1

There was no one alive who did not contribute his share of mystery to the world Picture Quote #1

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... When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that? It’s like a fire you’ve tended all your life, and the sparks are all scattered into the wind... That’s why we survive as long as we do, because the people who loved us keep us going Picture Quote #1

You remember having friends who used to lampoon the world so effortlessly, crouching at the verge of every joke and waiting to pounce on it, and you remember how they changed as they grew older and the joy of questioning everything slowly became transformed into the pain of questioning everything, like a star consuming its own core Picture Quote #1

She had the same responsibility as everybody else did: to live as softly as she could in the world Picture Quote #1

Dreaming was easier than screaming, and screaming was easier than worrying, and worrying was easier than crying, which was what she knew she would be reduced to if she didn’t keep a hard eye on herself Picture Quote #1

Sometimes they rose up inside her, these moments of fierce happiness, kindling out of their own substance like a spark igniting a mound of grass. It was a joy to be alive, a strange and savage joy, and she stood there in the warmth and destruction of it knowing it could not last Picture Quote #1

The living carry us inside them like pearls. We survive only so long as they remember us Picture Quote #1

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I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years (Kevin Brockmeier Quotes) Anyone who has ever experienced love knows that you can have too much or too little. You can have love that parches, love that defeats. You can have love measured out in the wrong proportions. It’s like your sunlight and water - the wrong kind of love is just as likely to stifle hope as it is to nourish it (Kevin Brockmeier Quotes) I keep an ongoing list of my fifty favorite books, which I recalibrate whenever I discover a new one that seems to demand a spot there. (Kevin Brockmeier Quotes) There are times in your life when, despite the steel weight of your memories and the sadness that seems to lie at your feet like a shadow, you suddenly and strangely feel perfectly okay (Kevin Brockmeier Quotes) A successful song comes to sing itself inside the listener. It is cellular and seismic, a wave coalescing in the mind and in the flesh. There is a message outside and a message inside, and those messages are the same, like the pat and thud of two heartbeats, one within you, one surrounding. The message of the lullaby is that it’s okay to dim the eyes for a time, to lose sight of yourself as you sleep and as you grow: if you drift, it says, you’ll drift ashore: if you fall, you will fall into place (Kevin Brockmeier Quotes) There was no one alive who did not contribute his share of mystery to the world (Kevin Brockmeier Quotes) ... When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that? It’s like a fire you’ve tended all your life, and the sparks are all scattered into the wind... That’s why we survive as long as we do, because the people who loved us keep us going (Kevin Brockmeier Quotes) You remember having friends who used to lampoon the world so effortlessly, crouching at the verge of every joke and waiting to pounce on it, and you remember how they changed as they grew older and the joy of questioning everything slowly became transformed into the pain of questioning everything, like a star consuming its own core (Kevin Brockmeier Quotes) She had the same responsibility as everybody else did: to live as softly as she could in the world (Kevin Brockmeier Quotes) Dreaming was easier than screaming, and screaming was easier than worrying, and worrying was easier than crying, which was what she knew she would be reduced to if she didn’t keep a hard eye on herself (Kevin Brockmeier Quotes) Sometimes they rose up inside her, these moments of fierce happiness, kindling out of their own substance like a spark igniting a mound of grass. It was a joy to be alive, a strange and savage joy, and she stood there in the warmth and destruction of it knowing it could not last (Kevin Brockmeier Quotes) The living carry us inside them like pearls. We survive only so long as they remember us (Kevin Brockmeier Quotes)