All the Lasting Things Quotes

“You have to be careful with people who can’t say no. You should never ask too much.”
― David Hopson, All the Lasting Things

“All the lasting things, it turned out, did not last.”
― David Hopson, All the Lasting Things

“Life will always be disappointing,” he said with pressing emotion. “Even if everything looked exactly as you thought it would, even then, there would be disappointments. Deep, even ruinous disappointments. Compromises we think we can’t possibly live with. But we do. We do because we must. It’s the contract we sign for being here. We have to treat life like it’s precious. Even when we think it’s not. Especially then. Because then we see how easily it can be thrown away. Do you understand? We can’t have you doing anything like that ever again, Benji. Ever.” The few quiet tears that rolled down his face as he spoke surprised everyone, which was perhaps why he was in no hurry to wipe them away. They made a point that, in this family, whose silences and evasions Roger knew so well, needed making.”
― David Hopson, All the Lasting Things

“. . so that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts and seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again as she sat with the children the words of some old cradle song, murmured by nature, “I am guarding you—I am your support,” but at other times suddenly and unexpectedly, especially when her mind raised itself slightly from the task actually in hand, had no such kindly meaning, but like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life, made one think of the destruction of the island and its engulfment in the sea, and warned her whose day had slipped past in one quick doing after another that it was all ephemeral as a rainbow . . .   —Virginia Woolf”
― David Hopson, All the Lasting Things

“that certain people depended on distance for the closeness in their relationships.”
― David Hopson, All the Lasting Things

“that the good of the world depended on those who “lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs,”
― David Hopson, All the Lasting Things

“Yes, the twee. If we’re lucky, we get a few that feed a lifetime. One. Maybe two. They’re strong, substantial. They put down roots. But most of them, most friendships, are leaves. They’re here. A nice little blossom for a time. A bit of color. Then they fade. We shed them. It’s natural that we shed them. You’re”
― David Hopson, All the Lasting Things

“When Cat was a girl, in the first years after the accident, she traveled to Mason City with her aunt and uncle, who provided”
― David Hopson, All the Lasting Things

“Max didn’t agree. “You don’t get to the top of the mountain if you’re satisfied with life at base camp.” “You sound like one of those inspirational posters with an eagle on it.” He”
― David Hopson, All the Lasting Things

“Benji leaned in. “You are so fucking selfish,” he said. “And that’s coming from me! If I find it selfish, think how selfish it must be.”
― David Hopson, All the Lasting Things

“Rabbits symbolize luck. Obviously. And longevity, because they have a million babies. You”
― David Hopson, All the Lasting Things

“Life will always be disappointing,” he said with pressing emotion. “Even”
― David Hopson, All the Lasting Things

“Benji had the distinct impression that Cat could cut out his kidneys, sell them on eBay, and (as long as she could quote from Ulysses) remain a keeper in Henry’s book. Not”
― David Hopson, All the Lasting Things

“He’d sooner drink bathwater than a goddamned cup of chamomile tea. She”
― David Hopson, All the Lasting Things

“thanks to every armchair journalist with an unwelcome opinion and a blog, the democratizing and devaluation of the written word. Of”
― David Hopson, All the Lasting Things

“Yes, her brother mentioned suicide. But he was an actor. He could be melodramatic, hyperbolic, hypochondriacal, histrionic, selfish, and self-centered. Sometimes all at once. But”
― David Hopson, All the Lasting Things

“Owed MasterCard over $9,000. Owed his sister and mother twice that, easily. Shied”
― David Hopson, All the Lasting Things

“hanging his head, allowed himself to sink deeper into the darkening thought. But,”
― David Hopson, All the Lasting Things

“If the doctors are right, if the last memory in is the first one out, then yesterday disappears before anything else. Yesterday,”
― David Hopson, All the Lasting Things