I See You Everywhere Quotes

“I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.”
― Julia Glass, I See You Everywhere

“There you are, diligently swimming a straight line, minding the form of your strokes, when you look up and see, always a shock, the currents you can't even feel have pulled you off course.”
― Julia Glass, I See You Everywhere

“My tastes, like my bones, fossilized decades ago. Reach a certain age and you are obliged to become an anthropologist. It's the only way to ignore that the rest of the world regards you as an artifact, that your culture has faded beyond the horizon, leaving you adrift on your tiny, solitary life raft.”
― Julia Glass, I See You Everywhere

“Ever noticed how sisters, when they aren't best friends, make particularly vicious enemies?”
― Julia Glass, I See You Everywhere

“Rage cools fast without an accessible target.”
― Julia Glass, I See You Everywhere

“What is the biggest tragedy you wouldn't be conscious of? Letting life pass you by. Living like a starfish, clinging to your one unchanging colorless rock.”
― Julia Glass, I See You Everywhere

“It's odd to spend your vacation with someone else's music especially when you're alone. You're free to let loose, unobserved, but someone else has chosen the words you belt out in private, the rythms you can dance to like a fool.”
― Julia Glass, I See You Everywhere

“Seven years ago, I joined a support group. The loneliness of my Clemlessness—privately, that’s what I called it—had become so acute that I could feel it pulling me away, like an undertow, from the people I loved who were still alive. (I angered easily. I wanted to yell at them, “You don’t fucking know!”—not just about what they might lose but about anything, everything: politics, art, laundry, taxes. I saw them as not just ignorant but smug, not just naïve but stupid.”
― Julia Glass, I See You Everywhere

“On the phone, we argue. In person, we tend to become sarcastic. Our letters, though, have a touch of romantic collusion.”
― Julia Glass, I See You Everywhere

“God, Lou. Don’t you think I want you to have what you want?”
“You’re my sister. You’re supposed to want those things for me.”
“You can’t have it both ways, Lou. When things get bad, you can’t call me—which I’m glad
about, I am!—you can’t do that and then imply I don’t give a shit about you.”
“That’s what I used to think.”
― Julia Glass, I See You Everywhere

“I guess that’s how well you know me. You think I like hearing this news.”
“I’m sorry. This is selfish. I just need to tell someone … outside my life. Get it out of my
head, to keep from going nuts, but somewhere safe.”
She sees me as safe? This brings tears to my eyes.
“I trust you, Clem. Are you pissed?”
― Julia Glass, I See You Everywhere

“I’ve heard again and again— mostly from friends who’ve lost other friends to AIDS— that it’s essential to see the corpse of someone you love, especially someone who’s died undeservedly young; how it will confirm the way nothing else can that he or she is no longer here. The body won’t look like the person you know, the self of that person, at all. This tells you there has to be a soul because something’s missing; what else could that something be? The first thing I know, when I see her, is that this is not a piece of advice I will ever pass on.”
― Julia Glass, I See You Everywhere

“Is it 'good' to go on doing the same old oblivious thing, to still enjoy it no matter what? Does perseverance steady the world?”
― Julia Glass, I See You Everywhere

“No one belongs to us, and we belong to no one - not in that sense. This should free us, but it never quite does.”
― Julia Glass, I See You Everywhere