From the Ashes Quotes

“My grief had become a thick scab; I picked at it from time to time, but mostly I left it alone. I didn’t want to know what was underneath.”
― Marshall Thornton, From the Ashes

“Kindness is the only real bravery.”
― Marshall Thornton, From the Ashes

“If you have nothing, you have nothing to lose. That's how I'd wanted my life to be.”
― Marshall Thornton, From the Ashes

“It was on the tip of my tongue to say something snide, something that would hurt him, but somehow I couldn't. It would be like kicking Bambi in the teeth.”
― Marshall Thornton, From the Ashes

“I was staring down thirty-five in a few months. While I might have thought forty was old when I was her age, I’d since decided to move that particular goal post down the field to somewhere around sixty. And I reserved the right to make it even older if I survived the next ten years.”
― Marshall Thornton, From the Ashes

“I guess you don't get turned down often."
"I don't get turned down ever."
"Then this is good for you. Builds character.”
― Marshall Thornton, From the Ashes

“Was that all life really was? A series of betrayals? Was there no way we could avoid damaging each other?”
― Marshall Thornton, From the Ashes

“People shouldn't die alone."
"Because dying in a crowd is so much fun?”
― Marshall Thornton, From the Ashes

“The French call it la petite mort, the small death. But I don't think it's like that. It's more like life, before I screwed it up so bad.”
― Marshall Thornton, From the Ashes

“Lily sat at her desk, expertly typing on a big, brown, IBM Selectric. The luxurious one that came with its own correction ribbon.”
― Marshall Thornton, From the Ashes

“It always surprised me that on the right guy a layer of sweat was sexy as hell, and on the wrong guy it was disgusting.”
― Marshall Thornton, From the Ashes

“When I was a kid, I used to think that God was like Joanne Woodward in The Three Faces of Eve. Except, of course he didn't have a slutty personality. He had a hard to grasp personality called the Holy Spirit. And the nice guy personality, Jesus. And the angry father personality, God.”
― Marshall Thornton, From the Ashes

“Call me a prude but blow jobs should only be traded for blow jobs; and then only between consenting adults.”
― Marshall Thornton, From the Ashes