This Impossible Brightness Quotes

“if you remembered one thing, it was that the very small details in life matter a great deal.”
― Jessica Bryant Klagmann, This Impossible Brightness

“Write for yourself, not for someone else, not for an audience. If you truly love to write, if you have to write, you’ll do it even if no one else ever sees it.”
― Jessica Bryant Klagmann, This Impossible Brightness

“Sometimes the impossible still happens to be the thing that makes the most sense.”
― Jessica Bryant Klagmann, This Impossible Brightness

“I read,” he said, “that often, when people get lost in the woods, they’ll come to a main road and they’ll just walk right across it. Or they’ll turn around and go right back where they started. People who’ve done this have said it was because they didn’t believe the road would take them in the right direction. But I tend to think it’s just easier sometimes to be lost.”
― Jessica Bryant Klagmann, This Impossible Brightness

“That her life had meant a lot. That people leave in the middle of a path sometimes, and we have to keep walking. That small things done with great love become great things.”
― Jessica Bryant Klagmann, This Impossible Brightness

“He had told her once that his only real interest in the world was absorbing as much of it as he could without having to travel too far. It was astonishing, he’d said, how vast one’s small world turned out to be when you explored every corner of it.”
― Jessica Bryant Klagmann, This Impossible Brightness

“No one ever asked a mountain to do anything but be there, and a mountain never asked anything of anyone. You could be scared at the top of a peak, but the mountain would still be there under your feet, strong as ever.”
― Jessica Bryant Klagmann, This Impossible Brightness

“Life is just too wild for words sometimes, so then you’re left with paintbrushes.”
― Jessica Bryant Klagmann, This Impossible Brightness

“That small things done with great love become great things.”
― Jessica Bryant Klagmann, This Impossible Brightness

“Is all of life, she wondered, simply one long journey narrowing in on those particular people who bring you peace, only to have them taken away?”
― Jessica Bryant Klagmann, This Impossible Brightness

“It is agonizing, the disposition of the human mind to construct obstacles in one’s own path, when the world itself has given us none. Life is so much easier than you think,”
― Jessica Bryant Klagmann, This Impossible Brightness

“They were like mountains. No one ever asked a mountain to do anything but be there, and a mountain never asked anything of anyone.”
― Jessica Bryant Klagmann, This Impossible Brightness

“I wished I could say something to her, reassure her in some way that what she’d done had meant a lot. That her life had meant a lot. That people leave in the middle of a path sometimes, and we have to keep walking. That small things done with great love become great things.”
― Jessica Bryant Klagmann, This Impossible Brightness

“We asked Alma again to come with us, and for a little while, she resisted. I sensed it was purely out of habit. But people still needed stories, and she knew she was made to tell them. Maybe in a different form, maybe despite the world’s hardened resistance to remembering what things were like before.”
― Jessica Bryant Klagmann, This Impossible Brightness

“I could see the wound in her when she woke and found him gone. This gaping hole that she’d always had and that she’d tried to fill with fragile, impermanent things.”
― Jessica Bryant Klagmann, This Impossible Brightness

“She slept that night on the ground beneath a tree, beneath the wrong stars, and in the morning, she began walking again, this time without the help of a compass or the sky that had betrayed her, but strictly by instinct.”
― Jessica Bryant Klagmann, This Impossible Brightness

“We’re all responsible for our own happiness. That includes”
― Jessica Bryant Klagmann, This Impossible Brightness

“But I never did think death was sad, Alma. It can be beautiful.”
― Jessica Bryant Klagmann, This Impossible Brightness

“You write and you tell stories and nothing changes. You wonder what makes something worth the attention—how much of a disruption one would have to create to be of interest to science. To be of interest to the world. To be enough.”
― Jessica Bryant Klagmann, This Impossible Brightness

“energy equaled distance between herself and other humans added to the time between interactions, minus interruptions and life’s social obligations, and multiplied by the volume of fresh air per day.”
― Jessica Bryant Klagmann, This Impossible Brightness

“Names are important. They give things significance.”
― Jessica Bryant Klagmann, This Impossible Brightness

“either she’d find a way to love this place again, or she’d say goodbye.”
― Jessica Bryant Klagmann, This Impossible Brightness

“After years in Violette, his tattoos now walked all over town, the images reflecting people’s dreams, the town becoming a kind of living text, giving a second tier of life to the landscape.”
― Jessica Bryant Klagmann, This Impossible Brightness

“Life was moving forward, always. The world was not going to stop, change was inevitable, finding a way back was a struggle against the current.”
― Jessica Bryant Klagmann, This Impossible Brightness

“She collapsed on the floor with Jupiter and slept there, because that is what you do when someone you love is dying, and because she didn’t want to sleep alone either.”
― Jessica Bryant Klagmann, This Impossible Brightness

“I always wonder, Isn’t being a good listener worth anything? Can’t you do something good for the world without standing in a crowd or shouting from a podium?”
― Jessica Bryant Klagmann, This Impossible Brightness

“This library of work had cost him significant loss of sanity, sleep, and relationships; enormous amounts of whiskey, coffee, and cigarettes; and every ounce of true joy he’d ever had. Hayden had spent a lifetime earning his immortality.”
― Jessica Bryant Klagmann, This Impossible Brightness

“It is agonizing, the disposition of the human mind to construct obstacles in one’s own path, when the world itself has given us none. Life is so much easier than you think, Hayden MacKenna.”
― Jessica Bryant Klagmann, This Impossible Brightness

“Alma was glad he’d said alone, and not by myself, because she knew how to be alone with other people, and she suspected he did too.”
― Jessica Bryant Klagmann, This Impossible Brightness