When the Thrill Is Gone Quotes

“Many & most moments go by with us hardly aware of their passage. But love & hate & fear cause time to snag you, to drag you down like a spider's web holding fast to a doomed fly's wings. And when you're caught like that you're aware of every moment & movement & nuance.”
― Walter Mosley, When the Thrill Is Gone

“Blood may be thicker than water, but family has them both beat.”
― Walter Mosley, When the Thrill Is Gone

“I gave my children the kind of dreams they could live by, but dreams are like oceans, Mr. McGill. If they’re worth a damn they’re bigger than the dreamer, and sometimes, when the one dreaming wants to be as big as what they imagine, the wave pulls’em down.”
― Walter Mosley, When the Thrill is Gone

“WASTING TIME IS a big problem in the world we live in, that’s for sure. But it doesn’t mean that we necessarily have to know what the goal is for every step we take. Sometimes we do things that are not directly connected and yet are still significant.”
― Walter Mosley, When the Thrill is Gone

“dreams are like oceans, Mr. McGill. If they’re worth a damn they’re bigger than the dreamer, and sometimes, when the one dreaming wants to be as big as what they imagine, the wave pulls’em down.”
― Walter Mosley, When the Thrill is Gone

“You could see New Jersey out of Mardi’s window. From the seventy-second floor it looked like a scale model of Purgatory.”
― Walter Mosley, When the Thrill is Gone

“spent together in the same bed and still managing to keep separate and remote.”
― Walter Mosley, When the Thrill is Gone

“Some people born to be fat.”
― Walter Mosley, When the Thrill is Gone

“He looked like a butler dressed by his four-year-old daughter—a mishmash of good intentions and ill design. And there I was, an unshaven, rumpled page of discarded poetry, extending a hand and smiling, no doubt wolfishly.”
― Walter Mosley, When the Thrill is Gone