Top 100 Tiffanie DeBartolo Quotes
#1. Life is short and a man should take pride in his work, even if his work makes him feel like a total loser
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#2. Maybe I'm weak for music men. Maybe I'm weak, period. But I couldn't deny I was charmed by his arrogant, fool-ish guise.
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#3. You can't wait forever for something, and then say it's too late when the time finally comes, even if every shred of incentive inside you has been lost.
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#4. Absorbing his words was like taking a drink of hot tea. They burned on the way down, but soothed my insides once they had time to cool off.
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#5. Maybe that was the key to getting rid of the loneliness, I thought. Treating love as entertainment, not as salvation.
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#6. Everyone might as well say good-bye to them now, these two aren't coming back.
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#8. It's easy to plant a seed and sprinkle it with water, but once the sun scorches the ground, and the earth soaks up all the moisture, you're left with nothing but a thirsty little flower trying desperately to make it out of the dirt.
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#9. I had the feeling I'd just found something I didn't even know I'd lost. We hovered above the moment like two rain clouds, until I said: Don't swear off all fruit just because you ate one bad apple.
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#11. Fate is just another word for people's choices coming to a head. Destiny, coincidence, whatever you name it. It inevitably lies in our hands.
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#12. Fate is the magnetic pull of our souls toward the people, places, and things we belong with.
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#13. Camp? You mean like sleep outside?" "No, I mean dress in drag," Jacob said sarcastically.
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#15. Standing off to the side, stage left, I backed up, parked myself on a crate, and squeezed my knees together. The louder the music got, the harder the crate vibrated. It was like having sex with Paul's spirit until his body could step in and finish the job.
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#16. It. I likened it to the intimate version of Doug's Tell me what you listen to and I'll tell you what you are theory. This was: Tell me who you fuck and I'll tell you what you are. Spiritual duplicity. "Choice betrays character," I said. "That's not true.
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#17. For what it's worth, I think happiness is a fleeting condition, not a permanent state of goddamn mind. I've learned that if you chase after moments of bliss here and there, sometimes those moments will sustain you through the shit.
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#18. Sometimes the most consequential moments in my life originate from a state of completely witless human auto-pilot.
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#19. So far, I've only discovered four things that make life worth living for me. My work is one of them." "What are the other three?" Jacob wanted to know. "Music, books, and sex," I said. "Not necessarily in that order." His eyebrows
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#20. I just want to sleep with a clear conscience and wake up with the ability to look at myself in the mirror. I also want my life to be my own. Even if it's a shitty goddamn life, it's still mine.
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#21. I'm afraid of everything. Fear of being alone, fear of being hurt, fear of being made a fool of, fear of failure ... Still, I think all my fears bleed from one big one ...
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#22. I almost died. Fortunately, my mother was a nurse. She gave me a shot of something, and things turned out brilliantly.
Lucky me, I thought. Why couldn't his mother have been a telephone operator?
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#24. Did you really want to die?" "No one commits suicide because they want to die." "Then why do they do it?" "Because they want to stop the pain.
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#25. Committing suicide so as not to be murdered is the worst reason I've ever heard of to die.
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#26. Dear Trixie,
Will you come to Memphis with me?
A) Yes
B) No
C) I'd go anywhere with you because you fuck like a goddamn fire hose.
D) You're an asshole and I never want to see you again.
Circle ONLY ONE and give it back to me when you're done eating.
Love, J
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#27. That's why you have to save the dying man. Because you want him around to keep saving you.
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#28. Don't waste your time with fear.. Fear won't keep you safe from being hurt.
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#30. Why are the ones who need the most shelter always the ones left out in the rain?
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#31. Has the industry done to music what McDonald's has done to eating?
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#34. This is what it means to be in the middle of love, I thought. Being in the middle of love is like being in the middle of a war zone.
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#35. The phrase what I want struck me. It contains so much entitlement, so many complications, but encompasses only what a person doesn't have.
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#36. I asked John if it was a crime to want to live in a world where girls with falcon eyes and pretty underwear believe in the saving grace of rock 'n' roll and he said, "Just check your chute before you jump, that's all I'm saying." Gotta get some sleep. Over.
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#37. The only thing I remember about him now is that he shaved his legs. I was surprised at how much I dug the shaved legs.
"Thanks for sharing," Jacob said.
I hadn't realized I'd been thinking aloud.
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#38. Forget the noose. Forget the Iron Maiden. Forget the electric chair or the guillotine. The mind was mankind's most painful torture chamber, the blessed liberty to cogitate offering either doom or salvation, depending on one's disposition.
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#39. I'm trying to quit," he said. "Just so you know." He lit the cigarette and inhaled so long and so deep it sounded like air being let out of a tire.
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#41. Isn't it funny to think that this magnificent piece of matter is in a state of decay? Really, can you think of any other living thing that looks this glorious as it's dying?
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#43. The days will always be brighter because he existed.
The nights will always be darker because he's gone.
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#44. There's nothing more pathetic than dreaming dreams you know can never come true.
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#46. I felt betrayed and deceived, and I feared I'd never get to be a William Eggleston character.
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#47. Lying next to Eliza, I had the feeling I had I'd just found something I didn't even know I'd lost.
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#48. He was waiting for something from me. Acknowledgement. Validation. Commiseration, perhaps. I couldn't even look at him because I was afraid of feeling any more than I already did.
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#50. I took a closer look. Jesus had piercing blue eyes, dark hair that hung in a flawless mess, his body was emaciated and taut, his hands and feet dripped with blood, and nothing but a gauzy loincloth hid what looked like a nice package underneath.
"Sexy," I said. "He looks like a rock star.
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#51. For the record, if I were Superman, a pale, scrawny guy holding a guitar would be Kryptonite.
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#52. For me, the release was a spot in time with no past and no future. Just the extraordinary simplicity of a moment - the kind of moment that has a funny way of making a person believe that life and love can last forever.
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#54. All my life I waited for someone who would say things like that to me. And for someone I didn't feel alone in the presence of. Someone who understood. Someone who would make me feel like it wasn't just me against the world.
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#56. Anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of time. There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with and love shouldn't be one of them.
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#57. Talent? That's not talent. Talent is Liza Minnelli tap dancing and singing at the same time. What I just saw was devastation. Dying man on the cross. Salvation in B minor.
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#58. He turned and looked up at me with the face of a needy child and the eyes of an ancient shaman.
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#59. You can't judge a man solely on his actions. Sometimes actions are nothing more than re actions. - Loring Blackman
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#60. It's bad enough when people I know fuck with my life, but when pretentious bass players interfere with my destiny, then I really get pissed.
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#61. I nodded, refusing to consider the possibility that any of us are doomed to die the same sorry people we sometimes become.
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#62. People have reasons for what they do, Beatrice. And even if those reasons can't be justified, that doesn't make them bad people, just flawed. You have to remember," she said, "someone or something has hurt them too.
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#63. Caelum goes: "There have been studies done on this topic, gentlemen. You could wager a bet and look it up." Caelum always talks like someone's dad when he's high.
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#64. And when Paul dove to embrace me, the look on his face was one of absolute, perfect joy - the kind of joy that can't be reproached, stolen, or marred - the kind that only the innocent or the ignorant are capable of experiencing.
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#65. I try to find meaning anywhere I can. It's the only way I know how to validate my existence.
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#66. Across the hall, Paul was either fucking the girl or murdering her, I couldn't tell which. I smelled mothballs. The afghan was going to have to go.
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#67. I laid it all out for him: Eliza believes in me, she moves me, and she's moved BY me. She makes me happy, she makes me sad, she makes me try harder, she makes me laugh, and she makes me feel like I can fly. Isn't that the goddamn definition of Love?
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#68. The power of music rests in its ability to reach inside and touch the places where the deepest cuts lie.
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#69. I remember feeling it even then- the sensation that your heart weighs more than your body- that it might burst out of your chest and splatter all over the wall. I suppose it's called loneliness.
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#70. Everyone feels that void. Everyone who has the balls to look inside themselves, anyway. It's what life's all about.. A search.
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#71. When dreams come true in reality they never feel the same as when you imagine them, and you know what that means? It means that no matter how good things are, maybe they'll never be good enough, and there's something seriously wrong with that.
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#72. Because a soul never truly loses hope until hope has turned to ashes, or has been buried six feet underground.
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#73. Why didn't you tell me?" Vera looked cautious. "Tell you what? I said he was talented.""Talent? That's not talent. Talent is Liza Minnelli tap-dancing and singing at the same time. What I just saw was devastation. Dying man on the cross. Salvation in B minor. An ejaculation of truth.
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#74. Sometimes I would open my eyes when we were kissing, I would watch him and I could see it. I could actually see LOVE - not words, not an emotion, not an abstract concept or a subjective state of mind, but a living, breathing thing.
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#75. He's more than just a good-looking guy and you know it. But, I thought, he doesn't have flashlight eyes or a cocky-bastard smile that can boil water or a voice from the heavens and most of all he says things like, It's only rock 'n' roll.
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#76. It was a metaphysical perception that an end could never come to a person who was more alive than anyone I'd ever known.
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#77. Jacob would have rather looked out of place at the Ritz than look like he cared to fit in anywhere.
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#78. In his eyes I saw all the other possibilities. The dream-world possibilities. The fairytale possibilities. The seemingly impossible possibilities.
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#79. The housekeeper had been there that afternoon. I could always tell because the sheets on the bed would be tucked in so tight, trying to get them out was like wrestling an alligator.
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#80. There's nothing worse than falling in love with a person over and over every time you lay eyes on them, especially when you hate their goddamn guts
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#81. Los Angeles signed a pact with the devil and lost its soul a long time ago, you know? It flourishes, but it's doomed.
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#82. I led Paul out the door, and neither of us said a word while we crossed the street. Once we made it to the other side, Paul stopped to stare at the building. He was babbling incoherently. The only words I caught were "fucking uptown" and "pancreas." He still had the doorman's pen in his hand.
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#83. If your intentions are pure I am seeking a friend for the end of the world.
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#85. I love you. More than I ever thought it was possible to love someone. Siamese twin lovers, identical wombs, whatever the hell you called it. All I want in life is to drive out of this horrible, soul-destroying state with you someday.
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#87. Don't swear off all the fruits just because you ate one bad apple.
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#88. I didn't want to go through all the shit anymore- the feeling of being so fucking in love every single day that it hurt like a gunshot in your gut. Who the hell would want to feel like that for the rest of their life?
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#89. We had pathetically simple dreams:
to do meaningful work that we could be proud of, to be together, and to be happy.
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#90. She smiled at him in the way you would smile at someone if they'd saved your life.
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#91. I'm tempted to tell you that you think too much, but I'm not really one to talk,' Jacob said. 'Henry Miller wrote something about fear making you fearless. It's a very powerful emotion. Use it to get what you want. I mean if it's going to rule our life, it might as well rule you to freedom, right?
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#92. I wanted to freeze the moment. Freeze it and jump inside of it and stay there until it melted into the warm, swishy liquid of happy memories.
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#93. Break my heart? Is that what you just said? I have news for you; you didn't break my heart. My heart's fine. My heart's in the best shape of its life. You know what you did to me? You took an AK-47 and blew my soul open.
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#94. It was as if all the melancholy I'd ever known, all the nights I sat alone thinking life sucked, had added up to our place in the world- finally a good place- and the spirit of that rightness was meant to echo on until the end of time.
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#95. Bottom line, Eliza - you're my home and my family, and I don't want to lose you.
I could lose everything else, and as long as I still had you and a guitar I know I'd be all right. Do you get what I'm saying?
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#96. And no matter what anybody says about grief and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the heart stops beating and the last breath is taken.
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#97. When you're twenty-three and you fall in love, you tend to think that love will supersede any problems. But no matter how much you love somebody, no matter how desperately you want a relationship to work, life can act as an oxidizer and corrode it to pieces.
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#99. I went home feeling so unbearably alone I actually thought there was a possibility I could drop dead before the night was over.
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#100. Jacob was the only person I'd ever met, besides myself, who believed music was a cosmic language that spoke directly to our souls - to ease our pain, and to remind us we weren't alone.
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