The Man from Primrose Lane Quotes

“There is no closure for this. Closure is for buildings, not people.”
― James Renner, The Man from Primrose Lane

“The universe is absurd. People want to make sense of it because we’re hardwired to find reason in the randomness. We look for patterns in the chaos. See omens in coincidence. We look at the random distribution of stars in the sky and pretend they look like animals, call them constellations. For some reason, we want to give meaning to the meaningless. If you go looking for the number eighty-eight, you’ll see it everywhere—the number of keys on a piano, the number of counties in Ohio—but it doesn’t mean anything.”
― James Renner, The Man from Primrose Lane

“When you’re lost in the middle of a set of dominoes, you can’t see the pattern that’s forming in the falling blocks around you.”
― James Renner, The Man from Primrose Lane

“selected a disc, and turned the volume up louder than he’d ever pushed it. A gentle guitar riff; a tap-tapping of some percussion instrument—he pictured a man hitting a wooden spoon against his legs; a solid male voice, and the song broke into something more, a beat that filled his head with cool images and colors. “What is it?” “Led Zeppelin,” she said. “‘Ramble On.’” He sat against the wall, his eyes trained on the space in the corner, while she selected more songs, rocking back on her legs and staring at him intently. “Free Bird.” “Roundabout.” “Sympathy for the Devil.” “Time.” “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.” “Brass in Pocket.” “Bad Company.” “Limelight.” “Crazy on You.” “Voodoo Child.” “Take the Long Way Home.” “Thank you,” he said. “Where have I been hiding all this time?”
― James Renner, The Man from Primrose Lane

“And the process, the ritual, quieted the hum of his mind so he could write.”
― James Renner, The Man from Primrose Lane

“I needed more time. I’m thinking about writing that last sentence on my tombstone.”
― James Renner, The Man from Primrose Lane

“How long do you look for something that doesn’t exist before it becomes a delusion? Before it becomes an obsession?”
― James Renner, The Man from Primrose Lane

“the walls of the submarine in which he served in WWII had bent inward during emergency dives as the pressure outside grew and grew, reminding everyone that nature, in the end, would eat them up, would swallow them whole.”
― James Renner, The Man from Primrose Lane

“To David, Bic blues held all the power of a magic wand that chooses its owner.”
― James Renner, The Man from Primrose Lane