Wish You Weren't Here Quotes

“And you promise we can do that locked in a a bedroom thing later?"
"Ava, when we get back here, we aren't making it to the bedroom before I do the things I want to do to you.”
― Christy Schillig, Wish You Weren't Here

“No one gets forever.
We get here.
We get now.
Everything else is a gift.”
― Christy Schillig, Wish You Weren't Here

“Life brought you back to art. And when life brings you something, dolcezza, you take it, say grazie, and don't look back.”
― Christy Schillig, Wish You Weren't Here

“There are people you meet in life that seem to just fit into a place inside you. It's almost as if you or He" - he points upward - "built that place knowing who would come to fill it.”
― Christy Schillig, Wish You Weren't Here

“We start to walk, our strides matching despite the five inches I have on him. It's muscle memory - this pace we keep - ingrained in us from two decades of walking together side by side to and from the city proper and campus. When I was a boy, he never left me behind. And now I return the favor.”
― Christy Schillig, Wish You Weren't Here

“I think you were my driver who was over an hour late. Who then lied about speaking English and sat soaking up all of my personal information like some sort of villainous sponge.”
― Christy Schillig, Wish You Weren't Here

“Italians are well-reputed lovers. So I'm sure you'd find my general tendency toward monogamy tedious and American. Apparently my boyfriend feels the same way. 'Experience the world,' he says. 'Oats to be sown,' he says." I let out a lady like snort and look his way. "Got oats? Maybe, I should make a T-shirt.”
― Christy Schillig, Wish You Weren't Here