April & Oliver Quotes

“This is what I think. Addiction is just a way of trying to get at something else. Something bigger. Call it transcendence if you want, but it's a fucked-up way, like a rat in a maze. We all want the same thing. We all have this hole. The thing you want offers relief, but it's a trap.”
― Tess Callahan, April & Oliver

“Because we're all rainbow-colored inside, each of us a different arrangement, of course. The kiss just makes all the colors more concentrated, so intense they can be hard to look at. Or feel, rather. Like a Mediterranean sunset.”
― Tess Callahan, April & Oliver

“It's like this," Nana says. "All your life you're yellow. Then one day you brush up against something blue, the barest touch, and voila, the rest of your life you’re green.”
― Tess Callahan, April & Oliver

“It hurts not because she is a failure, but because he finally sees so.”
― Tess Callahan, April & Oliver

“He was so close she could almost hear the movement of his thoughts, the role of the tide; she had slipped inside his skin.”
― Tess Callahan, April & Oliver

“Remember him, April. Even when you can’t picture his face anymore, you owe each other prayers. And I’m not talking about sappy, sentimental stuff. Or fantasy, either. You pray for the hardest moments in his life, years down the line, when he’s in a foxhole, or his child is sick, or he finds he has cancer. No one escapes calamity, but a kiss like that can last you your whole life. She looks up at April. I’m not saying that you think about it all the time. It just leaves you different than it found you.”
― Tess Callahan, April & Oliver

“The night is cool and sumptuous, the turbulent surf resounding in the darkness. Stars rise over the ocean, the Milky Way teeming into the spray.”
― Tess Callahan, April & Oliver

“She is up in the crown and can see for hundreds of miles. Thousands of years. Oceans forming. The universe floating out like the hem of his mother's dress...”
― Tess Callahan, April & Oliver

“Past and future rattle the windows, powerless to enter. Through a fluke of physics, he and April are beyond the reaches of space and time.”
― Tess Callahan, April & Oliver

“It gives you a sense of something that was already there, like the recognition of something you always knew. It extinguishes time. It doesn't matter what came before or what will come after; each note holds everything. The music unfurls in a necessary way, like the roll of the tide. It opens out and lifts you away with it.”
― Tess Callahan, April & Oliver