Alexander Maksik Quotes

#1. You know it's when like you parents said "I'm not mad at you, just disappointed" You know that hurts so much more.

Stephen "Steve-O" Glover

#2. Time passes, her mother said, peeling carrots. No matter what you do. No matter what happens, she said, crushing garlic, hammering the side of her favorite knife with her fist. Beauty or horror, my heart. Turning on the stove. Beauty or horror, it passes.

Alexander Maksik

#3. How easy it is to do wrong when there is someone else to blame.

Jenny Lloyd

#4. Hence the experienced soldier, once in motion, is never bewildered; once he has broken camp, he is never at a loss.

Sun Tzu

#5. The moon was a fang in the lightning sky.

Alexander Maksik

#6. We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.

Jeff Bezos

#7. The thing is you have to fight the whole time. You can't stop. Otherwise you just end up somewhere, bobbing in the middle of a life you never wanted.

Alexander Maksik

#8. But all the wanting in the world, her mother reminded her, will leave you with exactly what you have.

Alexander Maksik

#9. It is the most fundamental thing I know about being alive: Everything that lasts is invention followed by tenacious faith.

Alexander Maksik

#10. This was the advantage of desire. Desire focused the mind. It eliminated extraneous thought. The greater the desire, the less the burden of the mind. She would like to live her life this way. Perhaps it was how to survive intact. Live to satisfy her desires. Desire only what she could have.

Alexander Maksik

#11. Anyone you can fool isn't worth loving.

Alexander Maksik

#12. The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.

Cormac McCarthy

#13. For some reason, I like to put myself in situations where I don't even know how I ended up there. I never want to be complacent or comfortable in a role.

Laura Prepon

#14. We the erratic keep terrible time.

Alexander Maksik

#15. Cowards spend their lives alone. Either with people who can't hurt them, or with no one at all.

Alexander Maksik

#16. I would fight for him and against anyone who wouldn't. It wasn't complicated. In the beginning love never is.

Alexander Maksik

#17. But what the hell do I know? I'm an agnostic episcopalian with a day pass to a Hindu heaven.

Neil Gaiman

#18. Find some people you give a shit about. Who care about you. Who are smarter than you are. Find a woman. Who laughs at you. Who'll kick your ass out of the house. You find that woman and she's the same woman who'll throw herself in front of a truck for you? Well, then you're somewhere.

Alexander Maksik

#19. Great stories strengthen us to be great souls.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. And it was the speed that provided some solace. For if it moved like that, it would always move like that, and somehow, because of it, things change, somehow things end.

Alexander Maksik

#21. But one day the "why" arises and everything begins in that weariness tinged with amazement.

Alexander Maksik

#22. Everything can change, but only with abandon.

Alexander Maksik