And the Dark Sacred Night Quotes

“Now is almost always the better choice. You never know about later.”
― Julia Glass, And the Dark Sacred Night

“Always more to learn, that's the pain and the pleasure”
― Julia Glass, And the Dark Sacred Night

“The past is like the night: dark but sacred. It's the time when most of us sleep, so we think of the day as the time we really live, the only time that matters, because the stuff we do by day somehow makes us who we are. We feel the same way about the present. We say, let bygones be bygones... Water under the bridge. But there is no day without night, no wakefulness without sleep, no present without past. They are constantly somersaulting over each other.”
― Julia Glass, And the Dark Sacred Night

“I'd suffocate. From my own cowardice.”
― Julia Glass, And the Dark Sacred Night

“Here was someone you simply knew you could trust, who might nag or infuriate or sulk, but whose greatest charm lay on the most durable of virtues: loyalty.”
― Julia Glass, And the Dark Sacred Night

“The older Kit gets, the less confident he feels judging other people as spouses or parents. These days, driving past the home of the Naked Hemp Society, he finds himself more curious than contemptuous about their easily ridiculed New Age ways. Why shouldn't they nurse their babies till age four? Why shouldn't they want to keep their children away from factory-farmed meats, from clothing soaked in fire-retardant chemicals, from dull-witted burned-out public school teachers whose tenure is all too easily approved? Why not frolic naked in the sprinkler---under the full moon, perhaps? Why not turn one's family into a small nurturing country protected by a virtual moat?”
― Julia Glass, And the Dark Sacred Night

“Americans refused to see accidents as accidental. They did not comprehend they while tragedy always exacts a formidable price, it rarely incurs a debt.”
― Julia Glass, And the Dark Sacred Night

“But things change, of course, and so do the ways in which people see themselves.”
― Julia Glass, And the Dark Sacred Night

“Saints are merely tyrants in the kingdom of virtue.”
― Julia Glass, And the Dark Sacred Night

“Happiness doesn't come easily, just because you want or even deserve it," she said. "I don't think you're too young to know that. So you've got to find your own way to let that happiness in. Sometimes, when it threatens to get away from you, you have to reach out the window and pull it in, like capturing a bird.”
― Julia Glass, And the Dark Sacred Night

“Do you think too long a period of nightlessness,” mused Sandra, “could drive you insane, the way they say sleeplessness can?”
― Julia Glass, And the Dark Sacred Night

“It's this time of year when Kit mist rise in the dark, as if we're a farmer or a fisherman, someone whose livelihood depends on beating the dawn, convincing himself that what looks like night is actually morning.”
― Julia Glass, And the Dark Sacred Night

“We do not demonstrate against anything. Our group is about being for something, never against. No antis except on my family tree.”
― Julia Glass, And the Dark Sacred Night

“If a mother somehow thinks she deserves to know everything, then she will have to know things that keep her up at night, won’t she?”
― Julia Glass, And the Dark Sacred Night

“Once the world at large— or the media, to be more accurate— beatifies you, life is never the same. And because you cannot resist the stoking of your ego, no matter how hard you try, you begin to lose sight of yourself as just another workaday sinner.”
― Julia Glass, And the Dark Sacred Night

“but boys who like the tough sports—boys who are virtually nursed on that potion of hustle, slam, and grunt—they’re the ones with the best chance in life.”
― Julia Glass, And the Dark Sacred Night

“All that spring and summer, there were times when she felt as if she had no joints or muscles, no physical means with which to move about the world.”
― Julia Glass, And the Dark Sacred Night

“What, exactly, is a father if not a man who, once you’re grown and gone and out in the world making your own mistakes, all good advice be damned, waits patiently for you to return? And if you don’t, well then, you don’t. He understands that risk. He knows whose choice it is.”
― Julia Glass, And the Dark Sacred Night

“Sometimes I have this feeling,” Walter said, “that he operates on the philosophy that ‘what Walter doesn’t know won’t hurt him.”
― Julia Glass, And the Dark Sacred Night

“Behold the rich farm boy Malachy Burns
Who plays his pipe among the churns.
He's a coward, he's benighted,
He makes everyone feel slighted,
And all things but music he spurns.”
― Julia Glass, And the Dark Sacred Night

“I once knew this cellist, Miss Browning,
A swan with whom I enjoyed clowning.
But at night when she bloomed
I felt blissfully doomed.
Far from shore, in danger of drowning.”
― Julia Glass, And the Dark Sacred Night