Please Be with Me Quotes

“Do what you love and own who you are.
Time is precious ad death is real.
So is Art: It defies them both”
― Galadrielle Allman, Please Be with Me: A Song for My Father, Duane Allman

“Duane’s story can only end one way. It ends with goodbye. But you can live forever inside a goodbye. I have, all my life so far. What better way to live in longing than with a song, repeated endlessly? How many daughters can lift the needle of a record player and trace backward to the first groove in an album and hear their fathers, young, strong, and alive?”
― Galadrielle Allman, Please Be with Me: A Song for My Father, Duane Allman

“When a family is broken by death, there is no clear way forward out of despair. It is easy to mistake grief for proof of love, and so refuse to relinquish it. For the first year or longer, there is a constant, grinding question that hands over you: Stay or go? You fixate on the fantasy of willing time to roll backward. You find the precise moment before they were taken, and plant your flag there. Death becomes the territory where our love lives, a dangerous place for the living to stay for very long.”
― Galadrielle Allman, Please Be with Me: A Song for My Father, Duane Allman

“Do what you love and own who you are.
Time is precious and death is real.
So is Art: It defies them both”
― Galadrielle Allman, Please Be with Me: A Song for My Father, Duane Allman

“It seemed impossible that someone who lived so fiercely, and with such hunger for all that life could offer, could be taken so suddenly.”
― Galadrielle Allman, Please Be with Me: A Song for My Father, Duane Allman