One of Us Quotes

“Nobody likes getting pushed around, but the truth is we spend our whole lives getting pushed,” Jake said. “Getting pushed ain’t the hard part. The hard part is figuring when to make a stand and push back.”
― Craig DiLouie, One of Us

“This was real love. You took somebody as they were and did anything for them.”
― Craig DiLouie, One of Us

“There came a point in middle age when the search for meaning switched its focal point from life to death.”
― Craig DiLouie, One of Us

“Folks didn’t care about the truth, not when it interfered with a comforting narrative.”
― Craig DiLouie, One of Us

“A single moment breaks the world.”
― Craig DiLouie, One of Us

“To be a hero, I must become a monster. Must become that which I fight.”
― Craig DiLouie, One of Us

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. —Friedrich Nietzsche”
― Craig DiLouie, One of Us

“Sometimes it is only in the lack of something we discover how strong it is weaved into the fabric of the day.”
― Craig DiLouie, One of Us

“Life did him more than he did life.”
― Craig DiLouie, One of Us

“Becoming an adult was not so much a road as a ladder, and she’d just climbed one of its rungs.”
― Craig DiLouie, One of Us