& Sons Quotes

“A brief silence followed, everyone smiling with no direction, one of those awkward moments where families realize they are essentially a collection of strangers with a few things in common...”
― David Gilbert, & Sons

“But that's a lie. No, that's life without the f.”
― David Gilbert, & Sons

“I believe in love at first sight so that I might be seen.”
― David Gilbert, & Sons

“It is easy to love a woman, it is in nature, but art to love a man, and a profound art to want to put your horse in another man's stall.”
― David Gilbert, & Sons

“Our oldest friends, their faces, never really change, as we both travel at the same speed of life. Parents and children are different. They help us measure our existence, like the clock on the wall or the watch on our wrist. But old friends carry with them a braided constant, part and whole, all the days in the calendar contained in a glance.”
― David Gilbert, & Sons

“Andy wondered if Jesus was once a supreme embarrassment to his Father, this hippie carpenter who ran around with the freak crowd until finally he gave up on his dreams and stepped into the family business, probably to his mother's regret. What a sellout, Andy thought. A truly kick-ass Jesus would have said, Go forsake yourself, and remained a humble builder. Now that would have been something to worship: the son of God rejecting God in favor of life, meaning death.”
― David Gilbert, & Sons

“Like many people who have escaped their past, Richard assumed his absence was suffered on an almost daily basis. But really no one missed him much.”
― David Gilbert, & Sons

“Andy wondered if Jesus was once a supreme embarrassment to his Father, this hippie carpenter who ran around with the freak crowd until finally he gave up on his dreams and stepped into the family business, probably to his mother’s regret. What a sellout, Andy thought. A truly kick-ass Jesus would have said, Go forsake thyself, and remained a humble builder.”
― David Gilbert, & Sons

“For you are my oldest and dearest friend, Andy. I cannot imagine my life without you. You are an essential gear within my clockwork jewels and without you I am stopped.”
― David Gilbert, & Sons

“Take look. There's a black hole smack dab in the middle of your eye, a reflection of what looms ahead, of what you can never peer around no matter how much light shines. The fix is in. God dies a thousand times a second.”
― David Gilbert, & Sons

“But your Daddy chose to be a writer and the two of you were frankly fucked. All because I liked how it sounded in my head—no office, no boss, no bureaucracy, no nine-to-five, no desk, he says, having sat behind this desk for the last fifty years. I”
― David Gilbert, & Sons

“Every act of memory is an act of imagination.”
― David Gilbert, & Sons

“I lost my literary virginity to that book.”
― David Gilbert, & Sons

“These men, as she often muttered to friend Eleanor Topping, the two of them pressed together like sisters, their friendship filling in for the matrimonial gaps. These men, romantically isolated, secretly tortured, became like lighthouses flashing their treacherous shallows. Stay away! Stay away!”
― David Gilbert, & Sons