Thomas Christopher Greene Quotes

#1. Oh, he was a decent-enough high school student, good grades and well-liked, but his test scores were nothing to write home about. He might as well have Christmas-treed the math test.

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#2. What? She won't graduate because she can't swim the length of a pool? Really? Is this a serious academic position for a serious academic place?

Thomas Christopher Greene

#3. And she thinks perhaps that is what love is: letting someone else see that part of you that shatters like glass...They will grow old together, broken together, and as long as they both don't completely shatter at the same time, they might find a way to pick each other off the ground.

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#4. She considers the past. She measures it and weighs it and holds it in her hand like a plum. The past is everything now, and she understands that this is what it means to be dying: You stop looking forward, instead living for moments that happened years before.

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#5. ...time can be slowed if you live deliberately. If you stop and watch sunsets. If you spend time sitting on porches listening to the woods. If you give in to the reality of the seasons.

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#6. Make sure your children live longer than you do. Do that and you've really done something, okay? The rest is filler

Thomas Christopher Greene