We Begin at the End Quotes

“None of us are any one thing. We’re just a collection of the best and worst things we’ve done.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“I just wish there was a middle, you know. Because that's where people live. It doesn't have to be all or nothing...sink or swim like that. Most people just tread water, and that's enough. Because when you're sinking, you're pulling us down with you.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“If the good stand by idle, are they still good?”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“Hope is secular. And life is fragile. And sometimes we hold on too tight, even though we know it’ll break.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“She told herself who she was. Duchess Day Radley. Outlaw.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“She saw shells of people, so empty she knew they would not recover.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“Is there a difference between a prayer and a wish?" Walk took his hat off. "You wish for what you want and pray for what you need."
"Pretty sure mine are one and the same.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“Death has a way of making saints out of mortals.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“He said life means having somebody care enough to protect you.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“At times she felt so far from a place she had never been, like home was somewhere out there and calling, she just did not know how to find it.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“She cried for everything she had lost, and everything he had found.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“We endure, right. That’s what we do for those we love.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“Tragedy has a way of making saints out of sinners.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“All these people,” Duchess said. “They spend a lifetime looking to the sky and asking questions. Does God intervene, and if he doesn’t, why do they still pray?” “Faith. The hope that he will.” “Because otherwise life is too small.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“Don’t make me look like a whore.” “I can’t make any promises, sweetheart.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“She chose memories of her mother with great care, seeking only the diamonds among a mountain of coal.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“Guilt is decided long before the act is committed. People just don't realize it. They think they have a choice. They look back, play it different, sliding doors, but they never really did.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“Just go and tell me to be good or something, like you used to. And then you get on and I'll get on. Ours is a small story, Chief Walker. Sad enough, but small. Let's not pretend different.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“I’m an outlaw,” she said. He took a breath, sadness washed over him. “And you’re a lawman.” He nodded. “I am.” “So fuck off now.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“Most of all she felt tired. Not from the work or the sleep. Just from the wretched hatred that lived so deep inside her.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“She passed the beds, the forgotten children slept, dead to the world for those precious hours when they could forget their place and occupy another.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“You were cursed with pathological honesty, Walk. You carry weight you don’t even see.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“Most of all she felt tired. Not from the work or the sleep, just from the wretched hatred that lived so deep inside her.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“the world was a different place now her mother was dead.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“I rise above the farmhouse and see slates and green, the gutter of leaves that remind me of fall and seasons that change no matter who dies. I am high in the sky and Montana is a footnote, patchwork fields stitched by tractors like ants, people that bob like they are drowning in ordinary.

The ocean is endless but I see its end. I see the earth, the curves are tomorrow but it won't turn. I see clouds that hold sky, a sunset in the desert and a rise over metals. Before long I am darkness and stars and their moons. The world is nothing, so small I raise a finger and hide it. I am the God I don't believe in. I am big enough to stop the bad men.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“She looked over at her brother and knew without doubt he was the color to her shade.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“He’s six. He does not know what he wants. He does not know a world beyond the immediate.” “And you?” “I know too much.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“He closed his eyes to the rain. She saw him then, a life of paid mistake, the lure of second chance, the plaintive ask of redemption.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“I’m a fucking outlaw. When you will realize that? I don’t dress up nice and date boys. I’ve got bigger things on.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“Robin needed people, the cushion of barren names that would keep him from feeling so vulnerable.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End