Keith > Keith's Quotes

“I am not easy to love but I am well loved. I try to love well in return.”
― Roxane Gay, An Untamed State

“Relationships are awful. They’ll kill you, right up to the point where they start saving your life.”
― Grant Ginder, The People We Hate at the Wedding

“I love the sounds of the French Quarter on mild nights…laughter, chatter, gaiety, Dixieland jazz drifting out of open doors, rock music pounding somewhere—an eternal carouse.”
― Anne Rice, Blood Communion

“A person was like a city. You couldn't let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole. There may be bits you don't like, a few dodgy side streets and suburbs, but the good stuff makes it worthwhile.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Even if I gathered up the courage to wear something gayer, Boring, my body would still be wrong. The beautiful people who wore these extravagant looks were thin, lithe gazelles. Then there were the men who wore next to nothing, who could just show up in jockstraps and eye shadow. They were muscular and impossibly fit.”
― John Paul Brammer, ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons

“There was a price for going where you were outnumbered or unwelcome and trying to succeed, and it didn’t always take the form of a door being shut in your face on the first day of the job. Surviving was one thing, but if you tried to get ahead, people were less tolerant of your mistakes, quick to paint your natural screw-ups as a result of your so-called identity. If it wasn’t exactly like theirs.”
― C. Travis Rice, Sapphire Sunset

“Because to love someone ridiculous is to understand something deep and true about the world. That up close it makes no sense. Those of you who choose sensible people may feel secure, but I think you water your wine; the wonder of life is in its small absurdities, so easily overlooked. And if you have not shared somebody’s tilted view of the horizon (which is the actual world), tell me: what have you really seen?”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less Is Lost

“The only people who speak in certainties are zealots and tyrants.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“Sometimes it is the evidence, the spectacle of another person’s grief that harrows you, more than the loss itself.”
― Alan Hollinghurst, Our Evenings

“The satisfaction of a balanced general ledger made her smile. Life was messy. Accounting was not.”
― Lori B. Duff, Devil's Defense: A Fischer at Law Novel

“Even the vegetables weren’t vegetarian, having spent the better part of a day boiling in a bath of fatback. Still, as long as you didn’t mind your meat breaded and crisp and you kept the whole thing a secret from your cardiologist, it all was delicious.”
― Lori B. Duff, Devil's Defense: A Fischer at Law Novel

“Now in the cold polar heart of old age I look at all my travails in love as comical and pointless, repetitious and dishonorable.”
― Edmund White, The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir