The Soul Thief Quotes

“The point is that although love may die, what is said on its behalf cannot be consumed by the passage of time, and forgiveness is everything.”
― Charles Baxter, The Soul Thief

“You know, there's something heartsick about parties like this. Look at us. We're all pretending to be smart, as if intelligence were the cure for our anguish.”
― Charles Baxter, The Soul Thief

“She has a winning smile. She wins, she always wins.”
― Charles Baxter, The Soul Thief

“it helps that in michigan everyone goes inside from november through april. but from may until october they are outside, on display, and all of a sudden if you are single, you have a window to heaven and no way at all to get in.”
― Charles Baxter, The Soul Thief

“You know, very few people really want to become individuals," he says. "People claim they do, but they don't. They want to retain the invisibility of childhood anonymity forever. But that's not possible except in a police state. In an ordinary life, you have to become yourself.”
― Charles Baxter, The Soul Thief

“Is there anything more restorative than the act of one person reading a beloved book to another person, also beloved? Slowly, I returned to my senses.”
― Charles Baxter, The Soul Thief

“This is desperation you're witnessing,” he says, gripping her. All at once, the thought occurs to him that what he's expressing is not love but hysteria, rising out of his own emptiness. He is in the grip of inflated speech, exaggeration, all the insincere locutions of opacity and self-deception.”
― Charles Baxter, The Soul Thief

“Her recovery was sometimes referred to as "a miracle," more miraculous than mine, but I don't believe in miracles, just the force of compassion, which under certain circumstances can bring the dead to life.”
― Charles Baxter, The Soul Thief