The Other People Quotes

“People say hate and bitterness will destroy you. They’re wrong. It’s hope. Hope will devour you from the inside like a parasite. It will leave you hanging like bait above a shark. But hope won’t kill you. It’s not that kind.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Other People

“You’re fading, slipping from my memories. Because memories are only as strong as the people who hold onto them. And I’m tired. I don’t know if I can hold on for much longer.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Other People

“People tried to make sense of tragedy, when the point of tragedy was that it was senseless. Bad things didn't happen for a greater reason. They just happened.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Other People

“But she had done a lot of things over the last three years that she had never thought herself capable of. None of us know, until pushed, what our limits truly are. How far we would go for those we love.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Other People

“We talk about life like it's some magical elixer yet life is your own slow crawl along the dead man's mile. Doesn't matter how many diversions you take, eventually we're all heading one way. The only difference is how long the journey takes."
-The Other People”
― C.J. Tudor, The Other People

“We're all capable of good and bad. Very few of us show our real faces to the world. For fear that the world might stare back and scream.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Other People

“There was only one problem with hatred, Gabe thought. And it wasn't that it would eat you up or destroy you. That was bullshit. Hatred could fuel you through the worst of times. Grief, despair, terror. Live and forgiveness might keep you warm, but hatred would power your rocket all the way to the moon.

No, the problem was that, eventually, hatred burned itself out.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Other People

“She knew how easily things could be lost. Life, family, love. It was all so fragile.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Other People

“Death might be indiscriminate, but time is merciless.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Other People

“It was easy to imagine that other people had the fairy tale, but the truth was the shiny front doors, hanging baskets and neatly mown lawns didn't tell the whole story.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Other People

“Like bricks, secrets eventually press down and drown us.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Other People

“Memories are only as strong as the people who hold onto them.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Other People

“I'm not sure if it's coping or distraction. But we do what is necessary to get by”
― C.J. Tudor, The Other People

“She knew how easily things could be lost: life, family, love. It was all so fragile”
― C.J. Tudor, The Other People

“When you've been denied the pleasure of such small things, they mean the world”
― C.J. Tudor, The Other People

“People tried to make sense of tragedy when the point of tragedy was that it was senseless. Bad things didn't happen for a greater purpose. They just happened”
― C.J. Tudor, The Other People

“So many things we talk about doing (...). Always thinking we'll have another day, another week. another year. As if our future were a certainty. Not just a fragile promise”
― C.J. Tudor, The Other People

“She was probably relieved she didn't have to help. Most people were. They pretended they did. But really, no one wanted to put themselves out for someone else.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Other People

“We all have our addictions. Things we value more than life itself. Things we know will probably kill us. In a way, they make life simpler. You know what's going to get you”
― C.J. Tudor, The Other People

“All he was really thinking was that he just wanted it over. The pain the sheer exhaustion of trying to stay alive. It was too hard. Life had become an instrument of torture, every minute of every day bearing down on him (...)”
― C.J. Tudor, The Other People

“It wasn't that they didn't love each other. Once, they had loved each other furiously, relentlessly. But passionate love always dims. It has to. Like anything else, love must evolve. To survive, it needs to smoulder, not rage But you still need to tend to it, to keep throwing out warmth. Be too neglectful, for too long, and the fire goes out completely, leaving you raking through the ashes, searching for the spark you once had.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Other People

“Anyone who ever lost someone hates Christmas. Christmas takes your pain and turns it up to eleven. It taunts your loss with every glistening treetop and First Noel. It reminds you that there is no respite, not let-up. Your grief is unrelenting and even if you manage to put it away, like a box of decorations, it will always come back Reappearing every year,as familiar as Jacob Marley's rotting ghost.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Other People

“I think, when something terrible happens, we all deal with it in different ways. We find something that helps us cope”
― C.J. Tudor, The Other People

“You do your best. You try. But you can't force people to change. Maybe they never will. Not unless something drastic happens to shake them out of their apathy”
― C.J. Tudor, The Other People

“We try not to think about death. And if we do, we view it as something distant and abstract. We never expect it to ambush us (...). Just like we convince ourselves tragedy will never befall us because we are somehow special and immune. The worst that can happen only ever happens to other people”
― C.J. Tudor, The Other People

“Throughout the year, it seemed there was events designed to remind the lonely that they were indeed alone”
― C.J. Tudor, The Other People

“Mas a vida é uma viagem demorada por uma estrada que leva à morte. Não importa quantos desvios você pegue, mais cedo ou mais tarde todos chegaremos ao mesmo destino. A única diferença é a duração da jornada.”
― C.J. Tudor, As Outras Pessoas

“Um pequeno piano foi colocado no canto do quarto.”
― C.J. Tudor, As Outras Pessoas

“That was what really drove him past the edge of insanity.The same dozen Christmas songs played again and again, and not even the originals but irritatingly bad copies.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Other People

“Rozumiał jej ból. Dlaczego nie możemy uratować wszystkich zabawek? Bo nie możemy. Bo życie nie jest sprawiedliwe. Bo musimy dokonywać wyborów, czasem brutalnych. Niekiedy w ogóle nie mamy wyboru. Nie wszystko i nie każdego da się naprawić nitką i kroplą kleju; nie wszyscy dożyjemy końca swoich dni na werandzie w promieniach słońca.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Other People