Tell Me When It Hurts Quotes

“I’ve been alone my whole life,” he continued. “I’m not afraid of it. What I’m afraid of is living a life with no connections, where no one mourns my passing, because I’ve touched no one, where I’m not missed, because I wasn’t really there. I don’t want that life anymore.”
― Christine M. Whitehead, Tell Me When It Hurts

“The courage had come. The courage to do things she didn’t want to do, things she cringed at doing, things that left nightmares as their legacy, things that made her tremble in the replaying. Courage is grace under pressure, Hemingway said. Courage is being scared to death—but saddling up anyway, John Wayne said. Peter had taught her that she could go on automatic pilot if the cause was just, and the job would get done.”
― Christine M. Whitehead, Tell Me When It Hurts

“since all of us are in this great waiting room on earth until we can find peace, it’s not a betrayal of the cause to get some joy where you can find it.”
― Christine M. Whitehead, Tell Me When It Hurts

“It was a muffled requiem, a quiet dirge of despair.”
― Christine M. Whitehead, Tell Me When It Hurts

“I love you, McCall, and I will for as long as I live, and then some.”
― Christine M. Whitehead, Tell Me When It Hurts