Maile Meloy Quotes

#1. To be a kid is to be invisible and to listen, and to interpret things that aren't necessarily meant for you to hear
because how else do you find out about the world?

Maile Meloy

#2. Whenever we tamper with natural laws, there are consequences," the count said. "The larger the disruption, the larger the consequence.

Maile Meloy

#3. Diabetes is passed that way
over and down, like a knight in chess.

Maile Meloy

#4. I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.

William Bernbach

#5. Certainly some guy eating cardboard in Cincinnati has lost any ordinary impetus to review your novel decently if he's just read you just got six figures out of Warner Bros - which incidentally was not true.

William Monahan

#6. He held his hands tightly together and cursed his daughter for bringing the terrible world, with its humiliation and longing, back to his door.

Maile Meloy

#7. The most important acts, both for the one who accomplishes them and for his fellow creatures, are those that have remote consequences.

Leo Tolstoy

#8. If I have a care in the world, I have a gift to give.

Indigo Girls

#9. I baptize you in the name of the conservation of energy. What comes around goes around.

Maile Meloy

#10. Children were experiments, and his had failed.

Maile Meloy

#11. She craved a family, not having had enough of one to understand what a pain in the ass it was.

Maile Meloy

#12. Chet suddenly wished she had quit teaching the class because of him, that he'd had any effect on her at all.

Maile Meloy

#13. All the while, Everett felt both the threat of disorder and the steady, thrumming promise of having everything he wanted, all at once.

Maile Meloy

#14. Our situation was so desperate that only the death of His own Son on a cruel and shameful cross was sufficient to resolve the problem.

Jerry Bridges

#15. I guess if everyone was blind, and you tried to describe vision to them, it would sound crazy and made up.

Maile Meloy

#16. Now, alone on the roof, Valentine looked at her shoes and wished people would either stay or go away, but not constantly coming back and leaving again.

Maile Meloy

#17. His heart felt dangerously full, for the first time in years. That dried-up battered organ, suddenly flush with love. It could kill him.

Maile Meloy

#18. He was acting like the man he wanted to be, in hopes that he could become him. He would keep acting until he couldn't stand it anymore, and then he would be the man he was.

Maile Meloy

#19. The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one way?

Maile Meloy

#20. He has the greatest light who has the greatest love.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#21. We're creating little hedonists,' Frank used to say. 'Nothing will be as pleasurable as this for the rest of their lives. They'll search everywhere for something that can measure up, and nothing will.

Maile Meloy

#22. The role of the human brain was to rationalize suffering.

Maile Meloy

#23. At the simplicity of the gesture, he felt a pang: the raw nerve of his loneliness exposed.

Maile Meloy

#24. The day you forgive your past and close your eyes. You will hear a river flowing inside you again. You will hear that waves of the ocean hitting the seashores of your soul once again. And again the sun will shine, lighting up your darkest nights.

Akshay Vasu

#25. Yvette had never talked about her marriage - she was a smart girl, and she knew you had no right to complain about someone you got all the way to the altar with. You made that choice, even if you were a child when you did it, and the marriage vow was sacred.

Maile Meloy