Top 39 Dylan Dawson Quotes
#1. We sit in silence, all the unanswered and unasked questions thicker than the wall of glass between us.
Carolee Dean
#2. Hey, aren't you that guy who fixes cars?" Katie asked,
looking at my grease-covered work pants as if she couldn't believe I ever left the garage.
"Yeah, they let me out every now and then," I said.
Carolee Dean
#3. What happened?"
"I tried to be somebody different from who I am and it didn't work out."
"The world ain't set up that way. Folks say we oughta be better than we are, but deep down they just want us to stay in our places. With our own kind.
Messes up the natural order, otherwise.
Carolee Dean
#4. I have loved and been loved, thoroughly and deeply by good and decent people who believed in me. Who let me dare to believe in myself.
Carolee Dean
#5. Those who can bear to observe only unwritten laws-they all head for the taiga.
Sylvain Tesson
#6. In one simple sentence: what Christians want for the nation should first be a witnessed reality in their local church.
Scot McKnight
#7. Words are like people, I think. Put too many of them too close together and they cause trouble.
Carolee Dean
#8. Dude, there should be a law against people singing that bad.
Carolee Dean
#9. As soon as I left one town, I was in another, each one a totally different world, as if an invisible box surrounded its edges, keeping everybody in their proper place.
The rich stayed rich. The poor stayed poor. The troublemakers stayed in trouble.
Carolee Dean
#10. If you wish to have free access to the single market, then you have to accept the fundamental rights as well as obligation that come from it.
Angela Merkel
#11. I got words in me, Jess, fighting to find a way out. Sometimes there's so many words and they get so crowded in my skull I think my head is gonna explode. I want to write them down. I've tried, but most of the time my thoughts and my feelings are bigger than what I can get on paper.
Carolee Dean
#12. We are all rotting, making our way from womb to tomb, to the rhythm of the great clock counting downward to the grave.
Carolee Dean
#13. When I get to the part about Jess kissing me on the Fourth of July and taking me to her beach house,I look at my father and wonder what it is like, seeing people only through a wall of glass. Never touching them.
Carolee Dean
#14. I try to most effectively and persuasively present our argument, in a way that gives other people the information they need to decide, on the merits, the wisdom of the path that the president has advocated.
Josh Earnest
#15. Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit!
Bill Maher
#16. I used to think that words and music could change the world, but look at the people who have made it. You see their faces all over the tabloids talking about their latest stint in rehab
Carolee Dean
#17. There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one.
Bruce Cockburn
#18. I was
holding her
and she was
holding me.
Couldn't see
we both were
going down.
When holding on
is the only thing
you've got,
how can you know
this is how lovers drown?
Carolee Dean
#19. My head was spinning. I felt like I'd been drifting, lost at sea all my life, and now that I'd found dry land, I couldn't quite get my bearings.
Carolee Dean
#20. I have a class in Hermosa Beach that starts at eight, but ...
I wanted to offer to pick up her car, drive her back to Hermosa Beach, take her to the moon.
Carolee Dean
#21. Stop jacking with me, Dad. All I ever wanted was the truth."
"That's the problem. People think if they can add up all the facts, they'll end up with the truth, but that's like sewin' body parts together in the hopes you'll get a man.
Carolee Dean
#23. Where we goin'? Wade whispers to me as we approach the white picket fence that surrounds the row of wooden crosses.
For all I know my grandmother could be planning to shoot us and bury us with the rest of the family, but I don't think it would help to share this notion with Wade
Carolee Dean
#24. Those who have witnessed executions say there is no sound worse than the weeping of mother watching her son being put to death.
They're wrong. There is one sound that is worse.
There is silence.
Carolee Dean
#25. I was taking a nap in the theater one day while I ditched English, when I looked up and saw Jess on the stage. I had to pinch myself, because I figured either I was dreaming or else I'd died and gone to heaven - which given my history was probably not where I'd end up.
Carolee Dean
#26. I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.
Pete Townshend
#27. It brings back a long-forgotten memory of Christmas, the year I turned six. I was supposed to be in bed, but I was up waiting and watching for my father or Santa Claus, whoever came first.
Carolee Dean
#28. Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?
Helen Rowland
#29. I like to see an angry Englishman," said Poirot. "They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.
Agatha Christie
#30. This is what love is. Not the moments on the beach, or under the stars or the trees, or in the moonlight. Love is sitting together in the quiet, waiting for death to come.
Knowing you're not alone.
Carolee Dean
#31. So quit asking everybody else questions, unless you're ready to answer some questions yourself.
Carolee Dean
#32. Want me to drive?" Wade asks. "I won't take any detours."
I slam on the brakes and come to a dead stop right in the middle of the road. "Sure. Why not? My life is one big fucking detour," I yell. Then I bang my head on the steering wheel and I can't help it. I start to cry.
Carolee Dean
#33. So don't ask no questions. Too much truth can be bad.
Carolee Dean
#34. Testimony to her belief that life could be managed if things were only kept in their proper places.
Carolee Dean
#35. It is hard to believe that a place this small can hold so much hate, and I have the terrible feeling I've only just seen the surface.
Carolee Dean
#36. Is she worth all that pain?" he asked me, smiling.
"Definitely," I said, still reeling from the events of the day.
"But I don't deserve her."
"Then be somebody who does."
"That's what I intend to do.
Carolee Dean
#37. But thinkin' you owe people is dangerous business.
Carolee Dean
#38. If you sell yourself short before you even start, you'll never know how far you could have gone. Ambition is a wonderful thing and has gotten me farther than I ever thought I'd go.
Carrie Vaughn
#39. To my son Dylan.
I've written this book for you.
It's a guide for how not to live your life.
I'm sending it out into the world in the hopes
that someday it will find you.
Even if I never do.
All my love,
Dad
Carolee Dean
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