The Way Life Should Be Quotes

“Once you have meditated, masturbated, menstruated, medicated, or whatever needed to return to a positive Chi, welcome home.”
― William Dameron, The Way Life Should Be

“It is true what they say. Your life does replay before your eyes, but it’s not a flash; it’s an eternity. A simple change, a well-timed question, and a seemingly cavalier decision are not at all random when they are stitched together with every other facet of your life, producing a tapestry that is too beautiful to behold until death lovingly holds you up high enough to see.”
― William Dameron, The Way Life Should Be

“Funny how a simple change, a well-timed question, a cavalier decision, can change your whole perception, make you feel weak or strong. Samson lost his strength when his locks were shorn, but that was how Abbie found hers. It had been there all along, just waiting to be uncovered.”
― William Dameron, The Way Life Should Be

“If you look from another angle you’ll see a life built on shifting sands.”
― William Dameron, The Way Life Should Be

“He knows that the shadows appear at night, and in the morning, they will be gone. But what happens when the wiring of our brains become severed, or the circuitry grows old, when the shadows appear in the light of day, and the sun rises at night? The locks might keep the monsters from breaking into our homes, but what about the ones that are already hiding in the recesses of our minds?”
― William Dameron, The Way Life Should Be

“Sometimes change requires a major shift in circumstances, and sometimes change comes from a well-timed question, but often it comes from making a choice,”
― William Dameron, The Way Life Should Be

“They both grew up in small towns. As teenagers in the 1980s, they both dreamed of living in a place where they might be anonymous or at least surrounded by like-minded individuals, neither one realizing that some of the neighborhood kids and friends from their childhoods were like them, until”
― William Dameron, The Way Life Should Be

“those like DJ, who view the world as binary, good and evil, black and white, have difficulty discerning shades of gray, much less a rainbow.”
― William Dameron, The Way Life Should Be

“We think we know our spouses better than they know themselves, because in a way we create them, as if before us they were waiting to be brought to life. But”
― William Dameron, The Way Life Should Be

“Times change. People change. But Maine—with all of her craggy, windswept cliffs, crooked pines, and rocky beaches—remains steadfast, impervious to all this human foolishness.”
― William Dameron, The Way Life Should Be

“How many details of a secret must be revealed before it is no longer considered a lie?”
― William Dameron, The Way Life Should Be

“Sometimes a marriage runs its course, and because we want to believe so desperately that love is infallible, we seek a single point of failure, as if we can create a map of all the land mines to avoid. A marriage merely survives if it steps gingerly forward and avoids explosives. It thrives when you love with abandon, understanding that the potential pain you might endure is no greater or less based on whether you shielded your heart or exposed it completely.”
― William Dameron, The Way Life Should Be

“What happens when a family walks away in order to keep from being run over, and there is no safety net for the Bettyes of the world?”
― William Dameron, The Way Life Should Be

“Each of us carries a ghost child inside, whispering their fatal injuries in a language that can take the rest of our adult lives to hear.”
― William Dameron, The Way Life Should Be

“The lotus grows in the mud, but it reaches up for the sun, and as it emerges it produces the most beautiful flower in the world. According to Buddha, every person has the potential to become enlightened and to become perfect. It is just a matter of time before we reach the light. If not in this life, then the next, or the one after that.”
― William Dameron, The Way Life Should Be

“Sometimes we carry other people’s memories, because the burden becomes too heavy for one person to bear, and sometimes we carry their memories to bear witness, so that they may never fade away.”
― William Dameron, The Way Life Should Be

“Change comes in the form of daily decisions that you may never have considered unless presented with”
― William Dameron, The Way Life Should Be

“We don’t notice what we don’t want to notice, and forget what we don’t want to remember”
― William Dameron, The Way Life Should Be

“Not all men and women are capable of understanding or accepting their desires when the rest of the world thinks they should, and, like Leslie, Matt uncovered what had been tucked away into the dark recesses of the closet only after their marriage ended.”
― William Dameron, The Way Life Should Be

“Sometimes a marriage runs its course, and because we want to believe so desperately that love is infallible, we seek a single point of failure, as if we can create a map of all the land mines to avoid. A marriage merely survives if it steps gingerly forward and avoids explosives. It thrives when you love with abandon, understanding that the potential pain you might endure is no greater or less based on whether you shielded your heart or exposed it completely”
― William Dameron, The Way Life Should Be

“Joy was a summer day on the coast of southern Maine.”
― William Dameron, The Way Life Should Be

“We don’t notice what we don’t want to notice, and forget what we don’t want to remember.”
― William Dameron, The Way Life Should Be

“What we try to hide speaks louder than what we attempt to show.”
― William Dameron, The Way Life Should Be

“Do you ever think about what we missed, what it might have been like to be young and out and proud?” “No,” Sam said. “Not even straight people are guaranteed a fucking teenage romance, so get over it, bitch. You’ve got that hunky husband of yours—isn’t that enough?”
― William Dameron, The Way Life Should Be