Reservation Road Quotes

“There are heroes, and there are the rest of us. There comes a time when you just let go the ghost of the better person you might have been.”
― John Burnham Schwartz, Reservation Road

“I want to tell this right. I was thirty-eight years old. I had spent my entire adult life reading meanings into other people's stories, finding the figure in the carpet, the order in things. God in the details and no place else.”
― John Burnham Schwartz, Reservation Road

“Why? What had she ever done? What had any of them ever done? To give a child only to take him away. To make and then unmake, as if a family weren't built of lives but of things that could be broken, returned, thrown out--”
― John Burnham Schwartz, Reservation Road

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― John Burnham Schwartz, Reservation Road

“Without hope, the need to punish is the one true religion. Blame must be fixed on some soul other than one’s own.”
― John Burnham Schwartz, Reservation Road

“She was Mattie Tucker now, mother of three and a good forty pounds heavier, casting that burning eye over them all, reaching way back for a southern pleasantry that was more like a Halloween apple with a razor blade in it: 'Well, don't y'all make just the perfect family of four?”
― John Burnham Schwartz, Reservation Road