Whisper to Me Quotes

“I have learned that some people come into our lives, and then are gone. And that part of the thing, part of life, is to accept that fact, to accept that they're gone. But there's something else too: and that's realizing that a part of them will never be gone. We think of lives as stopping, suddenly. But they don't. They are like waves, like ripples, like echoes that continue to resonate from their point of origin, out into the world...And, of course...I can just remember those voices, and that keeps them with me. Remember their lives. Remember their words...But there are also, of course, people you don't have to just remember, because they're still around. And I guess that's the other thing I have learned. There are people who come into our lives, and then are gone. But there are also people who come into our lives and who we need to hang on to.”
― Nick Lake, Whisper to Me

“Think of this as the most screwed-up love letter ever.”
― Nick Lake, Whisper to Me

“It's so hard, when you fall for someone—the temptation is to look back on the past and rewrite things so they seem more significant. There's a part of me going: Did I know? Did I know the first time we met that you would change everything? That you would change me?”
― Nick Lake, Whisper to Me

“Hey," you said.
"Hey."
SHAKESPEARE WOULD HAVE BEEN PROUD”
― Nick Lake, Whisper to Me

“I have always been good at reading, but I have never been good at reading between the lines.”
― Nick Lake, Whisper to Me

“It feels weird, thinking about you, before I knew you existed. I wonder what you were doing. I think I like picturing you standing in the wings. A hero, listening for his line, his cue to enter.”
― Nick Lake, Whisper to Me

“Hi," I said, IN SCINTILLATING DIALOGUE REMINISCENT OF THE CLASSIC MOVIE CASABLANCA.”
― Nick Lake, Whisper to Me

“Um, well, then. I guess, bye," you said.
"Um, yeah, bye"
OUR ROMANCE, STILL SCRIPTED BY SHAKESPEAR.”
― Nick Lake, Whisper to Me

“I mean, she was just cool, you know? And she didn't even mean to be. She was just a hundred-watt lightbulb in a world of forty-watt bulbs. She shone.”
― Nick Lake, Whisper to Me

“People think hermit crabs are cute, but I can't think of anything creepier. Some dead thing's shell, with legs poking out of it. Scuttling. Feeding on corpses. Living in a borrowed skin of death.”
― Nick Lake, Whisper to Me