Top 35 Haven Kimmel Quotes
#1. She had taken her vows and then they had taken her, and the forces amassed against her were greater than love, greater than obligation. They were elemental, heavy as a dead planet.
#2. My favorite was Love Is ... Never Having to Say You're Sorry. This was,the good Lord knew, a dream of mine. But every time I refused to apologize for something, Love seemed to just fly out the window.
#3. I respect every way in which you are a troublemaker, now get up and do what your mother says.
#4. Mooreland is a long way to go to not to be anywhere when you get there.
#5. Decoupage hit Mooreland pretty hard...
#6. I sensed weeping and salvation in the air, two of my least favorite things.
#7. He's no John Walton.
#8. There are people in this world so perfect that the fact of them seems like a personal gift ...
#9. On Jesus: Everyone around me was flat-out in love with him, and who wouldn't be? He was good with animals, he loved his mother, and he wasn't afraid of blind people.
#10. What kind of good deeds? Like Girl Scouts? Because I got kicked out of Brownies and they won't give me another chance to keep my clothes on at camp.
#11. My mom insisted on saying such things, even though almost no one understood what she meant. My Dad sometimes called her Addlebrain because she read so many books.
#12. Since we were only going to the best place on the Earth, where every single minute of every day was different and filled with promise, what the heck difference did it make what we were gonna do
#13. I later discovered that in order to be a good athlete one must care intensely what is happening with a ball, even if one doesn't have possession of it. This was ultimately my failure: my inability to work up a passion for the location of balls.
#14. My hair looks like it had been purchased at a rummage sale after all the real hair was gone.
#15. One chance
that's what she had seen she had
one flying leap that was really composed of eight thousand separate possibilities for falling, and she had taken that chance and come this far and been found out.
#16. Contrary to popular opinion, my dad was not a lazy man. He was not lazy at all, for instance, when it came to Going Places In His Truck. He was also very industrious about Preparing To Go Camping. And if something really interested him, he would work on it all day.
#17. The book was so clean and white, and the letters were so perfectly black and defenseless; it would have been like tearing the ears off a kitten.
#18. I got kicked out of Brownies and they won't give me another chance to keep my clothes on at camp. Also
#19. It was just your life. You were just living your life.
#20. Laura had hoped, she'd written in her journal, that whatever befell her daughters, they would not be damaged at the level of instinct, that exact phrase.
#21. But you can't ever live in the place you dream about, the town you long for. ...the moment you become conscious of your desire, and then fulfill it, it evaporates.
#22. It was an Indian summer afternoon in Indiana, a rare gift. We walked home slowly. I thought Mom might be wrong about me having all I needed, but just at that moment, I had no need to complain.
#23. I am hyper vigilant and would be dangerous if threatened ... If someone broke into my house or attacked me in the street, it's THEM I would fear for ... But as Yo La Tengo recently put it so succinctly: I am not afraid of you and I will beat your ass.
#24. How is it possible, she thought, that a person can drive a thinking, feeling, animal to slaughter and not become less than an animal himself?
#25. They did a lot of cleaning in their house, which I considered to be a sign of immoral parenting. The job of parents, as I saw it, was to watch television and step into a child's life only when absolutely necessary, like in the event of a tornado or a potential kidnapping.
#26. Mother always said she was a size 7 woman she kept wrapped in fat to prevent bruising.
#27. The distance between Mooreland in 1965 and a city like San Francisco in 1965 is roughly equivalent to the distance starlight must travel before we look up casually from a cornfield and see it.
#28. I couldn't for the life of me figure out how long a person had to live, or how good she had to be, to get her hands on some treasure.
#29. I could no longer look at him. I wished, in fact, for blindness.
#30. The best answer I can give is that poetry is all about the effect it has on a reader, and Robert Frost was very, very good at that. If you're asking whatit MEANS that the line is repeated [and miles to go before I sleep] I'd have to say I don't know. It's stylistic. But the effect is pretty clear.
#31. Possibility, infinity, beauty
none of those words were right. [ ... ] What he really wanted to say was: have you felt this? this phantom life streaking like a phosphorescent hound at the edges of your ruin?
#32. But I think that what you'll discover more and more as you get older is that most people aren't thinking about you at all.
#33. I once heard her tell a friend that she was, in fact, a 120-pound woman, but she kept herself wrapped in fat in order to prevent bruising.
#34. Sometimes the side of the house would exert a strange and supernatural magnetic force upon my body, which would cause me to fly up against it, face first, and stick there.
#35. ...every beautiful and strange event made more poignant for having been photographed.
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