Gone Before Goodbye Quotes

“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

“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

“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

“Alena had offered her help. No strings”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“Maggie remembers an old Joan Baez lyric, “Speaking strictly for me, we both could have died then and there.”
― 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.”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“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

“or equality, you’re either not paying attention or delusional.”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“if you think our legal system is about truth or fairness”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“The pang, that ever present missing Marc pang, strikes deep in her chest. This is how grief works isn't it? Grief doesn't attack her on Marc'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

“if you think our legal system is about truth or fairness or equality”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“When one man dies, a whole universe”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“there was a line in the song “Badlands” that the poor man wants to be rich, the rich man wants to be king, and the king ain’t satisfied until he rules everything.”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“You can’t have an up without a down. You can’t have a left without a right. You can’t have good without evil…”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“Do you know what life expectancy is today? Seventy-three. Think about that. And do you know why? Of course you do. You’re an intelligent physician. We live longer because of modern medicine—antibiotics, vaccines, control of infectious disease, new treatments for cancer, stroke, and yes, cardiovascular disease. We live longer because we stopped relying on our ‘natural immunities.”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“Natural immunities. It makes me laugh.” His voice goes up an octave in mimicry: “‘Oh, we don’t need modern medicine, we just need to meditate and trust our “natural immunities” like in the old days!’ Bah. Do you know what the global life expectancy was in 1900? Thirty-seven years.”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“most people aren’t allowed into the VIP section. That’s it, really. Same music. Same dance floor. Same beverages. Slightly more attentive staff. Sure, it’s less crowded, but if you don’t want a crowd, why go to a nightclub? The appeal is entirely about who is allowed in—and who isn’t. Life is always a high school cafeteria.”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“Even if a phone is off, you can be tracked.”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“What do you call a longing for critical thinking and common sense and decency?”
― Reese Witherspoon, 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. That’s obviously impossible.”
― Reese Witherspoon, Gone Before Goodbye

“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