This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! Quotes

“It’s a cruel process, aging. Take my advice, dear, maintain your independence as long as possible.”
― Jonathan Evison, This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!

“While the days unfold, one after the other, and the numbers all move in one direction, our lives are not linear, Harriet. We are the sum of moments and reflections, actions and decisions, triumphs, failures, and yearnings, all of it held together, inexplicably, miraculously, really, by memory and association. Yes, Harriet, our lives are more sinew than bone.”
― Jonathan Evison, This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!

“If we’ve learned one thing digging up all these old bones, dusting them off, and holding them to the light, we’ve learned this: While the days unfold, one after the other, and the numbers all move in one direction, our lives are not linear, Harriet. We are the sum of moments and reflections, actions and decisions, triumphs, failures, and yearnings, all of it held together, inexplicably, miraculously, really, by memory and association.”
― Jonathan Evison, This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!

“But you can see it, Harriet, a look in his eyes, an alertness, as if somewhere behind the disease, behind the scar tissue, behind the fog of disassociation, Bernard is all there, he's just lost his ability to communicate. Like somebody turned off his volume. You're certain he can see everything that is transpiring with crystal clarity, and he can't do a goddamn thing about it.”
― Jonathan Evison, This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!

“wine is a much better salve than anything the medical profession has ever prescribed. Even the Bible condones it!”
― Jonathan Evison, This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!

“Three things, actually: One, an almost instinctive obedience to authority, which you abhor in yourself, though you have no power to stop it. Two, some dark impetus beyond reason, some grotesque thing that’s been living under a rock your whole life (let’s call it repression). And lastly, there’s the truth, plain and shabby as a hobo’s trousers, that you believe yourself to be worthless, though you don’t fully know it yet, at least you haven’t formally acknowledged it.”
― Jonathan Evison, This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!

“You sometimes wish you could ask the other you for advice, or guidance, or clarity, or at the very least a little perspective on the life you've muddled up so badly. If only that other you could take you by the hand and walk you back through the misbegotten paths of your life--the botched decisions; the cowardly retreats; the circumstances you might have controlled, avoided, or otherwise been spared--to the very beginning, where it all started going wrong.”
― Jonathan Evison, This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!