This Is What I Want Quotes

“Viewed in abstractions, love is the same thing for everybody. It thrills the same way, and devastates with bloodless efficiency.”
― Craig Lancaster, This Is What I Want

“For a long while, Norby had harbored a theory that places acted like dry-cell batteries, storing remnants of the lives of everyone who had ever passed through them.”
― Craig Lancaster, This Is What I Want

“Why was life stacked in such a way that she’d had to make binding decisions—where to live, whom to marry, whether to subjugate her own aspirations to those of Sam—before she had any way of knowing what she wanted? It seemed a cruel stroke that a willingness to wrestle with those questions came only after youth had been expended.”
― Craig Lancaster, This Is What I Want

“the only way to bury the past is to build tomorrow on top of it.”
― Craig Lancaster, This Is What I Want

“active, pulsing love took a secondary position to expedient need and the narcoleptic inertia of the day-to-day.”
― Craig Lancaster, This Is What I Want