Good as Gone Quotes

“This is why people need God—because people are awful, even the good ones.”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“Maybe once you've been left by the most important person in your life, you can never be unleft again. Maybe you're destined to be abandoned even by your own guts, maybe your foot walks off with your thighbone, why not, stranger things have happened.”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“I don't believe in the glory and the dream. I believe in statistics.”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“Maybe once you’ve been left by the most important person in your life, you can never be unleft again.”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“Somewhere deep down, I thought Julie was perfect. Now I wonder: Was I so afraid of finding out she wasn’t perfect that I almost killed her?   When”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“But there are laws of inevitability at work in our lives.”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“God too, had sacrificed his Son, Jesus. Always sons, never daughters. Were daughters too important? Or was it the opposite?”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“She could feel him taking in, for the first time, her lack of a coat, her lack of a purse. Now was the moment when he would also surmise, correctly, that he was buying her dinner.”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“If there is something missing—if I am afraid to love her quite as much as before—it is only because the potential for love feels so big and so intense that I fear I will disappear in the expression of it, that it will blow my skin away like clouds and I will be nothing.”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“most abducted children are taken by people they know;”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“there are laws of inevitability at work in our lives.”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“I remember when the grief was so potent I would lie on the sofa with the television on drinking vodka gimlets, one after the other, just waiting to pass out, staying as still as possible, teaching myself the art of numbness.”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“The worst doesn’t unhappen, but just like that, I am home.”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“I keep trying to find the before. But once something like that happens to you, there is no before anymore. It takes the before away.”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“How exciting to believe in your own ability to defy the world’s expectations of you even as you fulfill them, one cliché after another. I have spent my own life looking to my left and right and finding only the well-worn tracks of my own thoughts and behavior hemming me in.”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“What I should say is that it feels like all the parts of my body are going their separate ways. It feels like I am being abandoned by everything that has ever felt like a part of me. Maybe once you’ve been left by the most important person in your life, you can never be unleft again. Maybe you’re destined to be abandoned even by your own guts, maybe your foot walks off with your thighbone, why not, stranger things have happened.”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“The feeling of leaving: a perfect feeling, better than any safety in the world.”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“only superficially rebellious, on the level of hair dye.”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“Jane”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“My whole life, ever since I could remember, I’d always hated the thought that no one could ever know what anyone else was feeling or thinking. The fact that no one could ever be inside my head with me seemed like the loneliest thing in the world. I wanted so bad for there to be something that could make those boundaries just disappear. Something so big it was like air, a magic flowing across the planet, connecting everyone and everything.”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“This is why people need God—because people are awful, even the good ones”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“Tom starts the engine, puts on his blinker, and forces the car out into the Houston traffic. He’s a wonderfully aggressive driver. When”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone

“I like to eat one half at a time, in case I want to take the rest home,” he said. “And I find triangles aesthetically pleasing.” “That’s”
― Amy Gentry, Good as Gone