The Road Home Quotes

“There’s nothing more complicated – or fragile – than the relationship between parents and their children. It’s like no other relationship there is. And no one tells you how to make it work. Either you find your way or you don’t.”
― Michael Thomas Ford, The Road Home

“When did being single become a disease?”
― Michael Thomas Ford, The Road Home

“One of the great lies we tell ourselves is that just because we’re related to people, we have to like them.”
― Michael Thomas Ford, The Road Home

“If I were a girl, I’d be sucking every cock I could get my mouth on,” Will said. “Fuck, I’d take on the whole football team at one time.”
Burke ran his hand through Will’s hair. “Careful,” he said. “You don’t want to get a reputation as a bad girl. No one will marry you, then.”
― Michael Thomas Ford, The Road Home

“There’s not much point to being alive if you don’t do what you can to make life better for someone else, is there?”
― Michael Thomas Ford, The Road Home

“I loved Jerry, and I wanted to have his baby.” She laughed. “This was before women started looking at their vaginas in hand mirrors and Gloria Steinem told us we could be more than just mothers.”
― Michael Thomas Ford, The Road Home

“If they had a pill that would fix every dysfunctional family in the world, don’t you think they’d be selling it?”
“I don’t think the world is ready for that kind of happiness.”
― Michael Thomas Ford, The Road Home

“I love that word. Gaydar. So clever.”
“I’m afraid mine is broken,” Burke said. “It never occurred to me that you were gay.”
“It’s because I’m teeming with masculinity,” Gaither joked.”
― Michael Thomas Ford, The Road Home

“I think I’m in love,” he said after swallowing. “I could marry that pie.”
“According to the anti-gay crowd, that’ll be next,” said Nan. “Pies and sheep.”
― Michael Thomas Ford, The Road Home

“People who look down on us poor country folk usually won’t admit that anything worthwhile can come out of here.”
― Michael Thomas Ford, The Road Home

“If your mother likes your drawing of a duck and hangs it on the refrigerator, that doesn’t mean it’s good.”
“Snob,” Sam said.”
― Michael Thomas Ford, The Road Home

“Who uses crunchy peanut butter?” he asked the room. “You might as well eat squirrel shit.”
― Michael Thomas Ford, The Road Home

“I thought you said you were okay with turning forty.”
― Michael Thomas Ford, The Road Home

“Sometimes seeing the changes in one another had the opposite effect and actually comforted them. Seeing that they weren’t alone in growing older, they stopped caring, or at least caring so much. But often this seemed to be accompanied by a kind of neutering, a gradual disappearance of anything remotely resembling sexuality, until finally the men in question were more like kindly old aunties than men who liked to fuck other men.”
― Michael Thomas Ford, The Road Home

“Like many men his age, he occupied a kind of limbo, not young enough to be the new face in the bars that everyone wanted and not old enough to be – and didn’t want to be – the funny old queen whose jokes everyone laughed at. Instead, he was just middle aged and alone.”
― Michael Thomas Ford, The Road Home

“It’s a plant." Burke’s father stared at the laptop’s screen, peering over his glasses at the photos as Burke brought them up.
"It’s not just a plant, Ed," Lucy said, looking at Burke and shaking her head. "It’s about the feeling of the image."
Burke’s father snorted. "Well, it feels like a plant." He turned to his son. "I’m not saying it’s not pretty. But it’s a plant.”
― Michael Thomas Ford, The Road Home

“I don’t know why anyone wants to get married," said Burke. "I think the whole thing was cooked up by lawyers so they can get rich off of divorce.”
― Michael Thomas Ford, The Road Home