Gerard Donovan Quotes

#1. I saw the patterns of history and thought that a human might be eighty per cent chemicals, eighteen per cent his past, and two per cent feeling, creatures of habit. Which makes psychiatrists really pharmacists who have to listen longer.

Gerard Donovan

#2. Also my with sadness, something else crept in the door, a trace of something else, I mean. It must have come from the woodpile or ran in from the woods, because I'd not felt anything like it before.

Gerard Donovan

#3. People usually choose the place they get lost in

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#4. The absence of someone comes like a new season, first only in pieces: you see the absence in them long before they leave.

Gerard Donovan

#5. Outside I saw her sitting in the wheelchair, hands folded on her lap, and I knew I was living the moment that says nothing, that will allow nothing said of consequence.

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#6. The only test, Baker, is how not to erase ourselves from the map. Our history is that things don't last. Every generation creates the right monsters to destroy itself.

Gerard Donovan

#7. I should have known that people can sometimes come close enough to discover that they are strangers.

Gerard Donovan

#8. The pink petals hung raw and shook with the cold and wind. How they hung on out of season, the struggle of it, the strength it took. Not long now, and they'd be brown stains on a stalk.

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#9. Some men must create pain in others to feel less of it themselves.

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#10. If love leaves an echo, I said, she is still with me.

Gerard Donovan