Frederick Weisel Quotes

#1. Sometimes we do terrible things to the ones we love just to see what harm we can cause.

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#2. Take a seat, Charlie," he said. "I'll kill you in a few minutes. It'll be good for you.

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#3. I lived that year on top of a wooden tower in an area east of Santa Rosa known as the Valley of the Moon.

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#4. No single act is entirely redemptive, but all a fallen man has is the first step back.

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#5. The problem with escaping is that we leave behind us, even among those we love, different versions of the truth and everything we couldn't bring ourselves to say.

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#6. Sometimes, however much you plan, however many precautions you take, something happens, and in a minute the world is changed. After that, you're the person on the other side of that minute.

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#7. The sun had already set behind the mountains, and the sky had been drained of color. The trellises of sauvignon blanc flowed down the hill in even rows toward the valley floor. Whatever I was looking for, it wasn't outside. As far as I could tell, the grapes were minding their own business.

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#8. Seth lay on a sofa. His large dirty work boots were defiantly planted on the sofa cushion, all his energy focused on smoking a cigarette, as if it were a job.

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#9. The thing about hitting bottom is that, in the middle of it, sometimes you don't know if you're really hitting bottom or just bouncing off ledges on your way further down.

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#10. People are complicated," she said. "Didn't they teach you that in biography school?

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#11. If they're together long enough, every couple has one conversation over and over. This was ours.

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#12. What spares us is memory," he said. "It's what makes us worth saving. However low we sink, whatever promise we no longer fulfill, we tell our stories. That's why you're so important, Charlie. You're a guardian of our national memory.

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#13. Aren't autobiographies born in a question we ask ourselves: how did I get to this point? Don't we look back over the path and tell ourselves a story? This is how it happened. This is who I am.

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#14. There's an old adage: the sensation of drowning reminds you of everything you ever knew about swimming.

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#15. But, whatever the magic, I wasn't smarter than chemistry, and after a while, I heard two people talking in the empty room next door, their whispers coming out of the phone jack.

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#16. Nico's hair was combed straight up, stiff with mousse, the tips dyed the color of traffic cones.

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#17. Do you know what the essential problem of the piano is?" he asked. He held me so his head was a few inches from my own. His eyes darted back and forth. "It is impossible to play continuously on a piano string like a violin. The problem is to sustain a note.

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