Before I Wake Quotes

“Part of life was never getting a chance to say all that you should to someone before they are gone.”
― Robert Wiersema, Before I Wake

“chuckled. “It’s strange to talk like that, isn’t it? As if the Second Coming of Christ were Halloween, or New Year’s Eve, a finite time … I don’t know what you’re waiting for, Henry. I don’t know what forces are at play for you. I know that the Wandering Jew is waiting to make his amends. He’s waiting to apologize, to beg for forgiveness, and he has to wait for Christ to return for that to happen.” The cigar had burned down to a stub, and he dropped it to the roof between his feet, where it smoked for a long moment, then slowly went dark.”
― Robert J. Wiersema, Before I Wake

“There’s a story, in the Bible—” “Not in the Bible,” he interrupted. “Apocryphal. Scholars seem to think it was added in the Middle Ages, but accounts go all the way back to the time of the Gospels.” I shook my head, amazed. “So you know” “You’ll find, young Henry,” he said, “that there’s not a lot that surprises me anymore.”
― Robert J. Wiersema, Before I Wake

“It was the hope in their faces that awakened me, that reminded me of what a gift I had received. I couldn’t downplay what had happened. But”
― Robert J. Wiersema, Before I Wake

“But after seeing the people at the Barrett house, I couldn’t fool myself anymore. What Sherry had done was something of a different order altogether.”
― Robert J. Wiersema, Before I Wake

“How can you claim that religion has nothing to do with this? If there are miracles—” “Perhaps you should be talking to someone”
― Robert J. Wiersema, Before I Wake