Man Alive Quotes

“I watched that imaginary father grow old and die, watched him soften into a body yielding itself to fate, listened to his whispered deathbed chatter, heard how much he wanted me to understand, as he did, that the world could be beautiful anyway.”
― Thomas Page McBee, Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man

“The stories we tell ourselves can feel like a weapon to someone else.”
― Thomas Page McBee, Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man

“Abandon all hope,” I’d written on a Post-it note, and I watched it move gently beneath the heat duct. I read it in some book. The idea was that hope misses the point: it’s either going to happen or not. You can’t make a new reality, only fashion something real from the one that you’ve got. •”
― Thomas Page McBee, Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man

“I was sure that he and Roy were no different from me; not because we were monsters but because we all have the chance to be more than the worst that’s done to us. If”
― Thomas Page McBee, Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man

“I learned the choruses quick enough to sing along, even though I didn’t particularly like it, just to see what kind of person I’d be if I were someone else altogether.”
― Thomas Page McBee, Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man