Top 21 Claire Vaye Watkins Quotes
#1. There was always some savior out in the wilderness, some senator, some patent, some institute, some cell.
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#2. Luz's father had had it; it was how he kept himself atop everyone around him. He believed harder in stupider things, and there was somehow authority in this.
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#3. What was attraction if not a form of telepathy? The wild luck of two people feeling the exact same thing at the exact same time. That word again: purpose.
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#5. I don't know, maybe it's easier to be lost than found. At least there's energy in lostness. Something to be done.
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#6. Like all our memories, we like to take it out once in a while and lay it flat on the kitchen table, the way my wife does with her sewing patterns, where we line up the shape of our lives against that which we thought it would be by now.
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#8. She was brave from wine and unseasonable sunshine and the newfound closeness of home.
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#9. Jules liked that I was a local. I made her feel authentic, which is especially important to Californians.
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#10. Sometimes love is a wound that opens and closes, opens and closes, all our lives.
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#11. He loved her as though it had never occurred to him that he could feel otherwise. She wanted to be someone who deserved a love like that.
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#12. Now, I've made mistakes. I've lost people. But you've thrown them away. There is an important difference.
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#13. The mind is a mine. So often we revisit its winding, unsound caverns when we ought to stay out.
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#15. In California gold was what God was in the rest of the country: everything, everywhere.
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#16. What is so incredible and essential about an authentic cultural scene is it rejects a value system based on consumption and productivity and instead celebrates creation, critical thought, aesthetics and expression. That can't be mass marketed.
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#17. Everything I can say about what it means to lose, what it means to do without, the inadequate weight of the past, you already know.
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#18. They'd drink like men, like their fathers and uncles, like George fucking Washington ...
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#19. Everyone there pretended to be so bohemian and radical but really they were all worried about offending everyone else and she was fucking sick of it.
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#20. The sooner that Layla understands that we are nothing but the sum of that which we endure, the better.
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#21. He would, he realized, find them or spend the rest of his life looking, and this might not take so long. So be it. All he had ever needed, in that desert or this, was some say in how it went, some reassurance that he would go doing something worthwhile. A sappy idea, but not therefore false.
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