The Ghost Notebooks Quotes

“We're like the hands of a clock...chasing and escaping each other, losing and finding each other, around and around, again and again, joined way down at the root, no matter how far apart.”
― Ben Dolnick, The Ghost Notebooks

“A mind made up is a formidable”
― Ben Dolnick, The Ghost Notebooks

“In every system of sufficient complexity there are periods of inexplicable, and usually meaningless, disruption.”
― Ben Dolnick, The Ghost Notebooks

“A person’s quality is inversely proportional to the quantity of explanation he demands before agreeing to help a friend in need.”
― Ben Dolnick, The Ghost Notebooks

“Okay,” Dr. Mital said. “Okay.” Dr. Mital was a young Indian woman with dramatic eye makeup and an engagement ring. “Do you know what your thoughts were, when he pushed you?” “I was thinking What the fuck you do that for, I’m gonna cut you.” “Okay. So”—reaching over to write illegibly on her whiteboard—“What the blank did you do that for, I want to cut you. Is that accurate?” “Yeah that’s it.” “And your feelings were anger, I think we can say. Would you say there was some fear in there?”
― Ben Dolnick, The Ghost Notebooks

“Hannah’s Oberlin friends, a gaggle of food-co-op-looking people, came up and hugged me one by one.”
― Ben Dolnick, The Ghost Notebooks

“This is how it happens: you can’t imagine a person being out of your life until you can’t imagine how she ever could have been in your life in the first place.”
― Ben Dolnick, The Ghost Notebooks

“This is a thing that I’m sure is obvious to everyone else but is never-endingly astonishing to me: that every change, every life, consists of nothing but a series of days.”
― Ben Dolnick, The Ghost Notebooks

“Your own life is terrifying, but life is an unending astonishment.”
― Ben Dolnick, The Ghost Notebooks

“But morning always comes, no matter what sort of night you’ve had; this is an underappreciated fact.”
― Ben Dolnick, The Ghost Notebooks