Gone Before Goodbye Quotes

“The problem is, you can’t go back. You can try. But human nature never lets you. Wherever you are, that becomes ground zero. Greed is not ‘I need more’—it’s the fear of losing what you already have. Of going back. So you hold on tighter and keep trying to climb up. Because that’s the only way you can go. Life won’t let you stand still. You are either on your way up or you’re on your way down. And you’ll do anything not to go down.”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“They don’t tell you this on tour websites, but if you want the best view of Manhattan, you have to go to New Jersey.”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“The pang, that ever present missing Mark pang, strikes deep in her chest. This is how grief works isn't it? Grief doesn't attack her on Mark's birthday or anniversary or any of that. Grief knows you're expecting it on those days. So grief bides its time. It lulls you, makes you think it's not such a threat anymore and then when your defenses are down, when a plane simply starts down a runway for example, boom, it attacks.”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“The dead are dead. You're not supposed to get over it, you're supposed to live with it." "Other people may feel differently" "I'm sure that's true." "Suppose it offers comforts." "It would be a false comfort." Sharon shrugs, "All comfort is false when you think about it. That's almost the definition.”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“when differing viewpoints were welcomed because they challenged and honed your thinking rather than producing anger and scorn.”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“the days when disagreeing was considered a good thing, when differing viewpoints were welcomed because they challenged and honed your thinking rather than producing anger and scorn.”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“Scratch the surface of a person doing good works, and you'll find someone who fears the mundane and conventional.”
― Harlan Coben, Gone Before Goodbye

“Part of the human condition is that we all think that we are uniquely complex—no one knows what we are really thinking, what we are capable of—and yet we are convinced we can read other people. We think that we know what’s going on inside others, what they are really feeling or experiencing or thinking, but they can’t tell the same about us.”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“Past performance is not an indicator of future results.”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“and,”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“I promise you that your life will be extraordinary.” Damn, she’d thought at that”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“The sun is relentless”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“Enjoy the smaller moments,” her father had often told her. “That’s where life is lived.”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“But she knows—and not in a pathetic, needy, pitiful way—that she is unlovable. She could be a decent mom and daughter and sister. She could be a pretty good friend. But her condition makes her unworthy of true companionship or love.”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“if you think our legal system is about truth or fairness or equality, you’re either not paying attention or delusional.”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“enlightened.”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“scorn.”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“Life is always a high school cafeteria.”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“But then again, when your world falls apart—when you had everything and even understood and appreciated that you had everything and never took any of it for granted, not for a second, knew how lucky you were, and because you were so grateful, you somehow naively expected karma to reward you, or at least leave you be—you learn in the hardest of ways that fate is fickle, that life is chaos and no one gets out unscathed, that you can have everything one moment and have it all snatched away so easily…”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“learn in the hardest of ways that fate is fickle, that life is chaos and no one gets out unscathed, that you can have everything one moment and have it all snatched away so easily…”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“You wonder what makes a hero? There’s altruism, sure. But there’s also ego and recklessness and thrill-seeking.”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“When you’re close to death, that’s when you feel your most alive.”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“This is the closest she gets to shutting down—distracting her brain with fiction rather than problem-solving.”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“The dead are dead,” Porkchop says. “You’re not supposed to get over it. You’re supposed to live with it.” “Other people may feel differently.” “I’m sure that’s true.” “Suppose it offers comfort?” “It would be a false comfort.” Sharon shrugs. “All comfort is false”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“The world is a series of negotiations—and the best negotiations are when both sides win. We’ve made a deal”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“When you’re close to death”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“Eric Hoffer is?” “No.” “An American philosopher. He has this quote I love: ‘Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.’” He smiles. “Good, right?”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“Be regular and orderly in your life”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“That’s what we stupid humans do. We carry the seeds of our own self-destruction.”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“she realized that one of life’s greatest and most unappreciated luxuries was a hot shower. If you think about it”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye