Bobby's Girl Quotes

“The time has come for tears to start again,
Those faithful tears that always ease the pain.
Release the raging rivers of my soul!
Let me drown and then rise up again.

Let me drown until the river dries,
until the numbing coldness settles in.
See the world once more with empty eyes,
no spark of warmth can penetrate the skin.
Crash the thunder! Howl the wind!
Freeze my heart and beat the driving rain!
Let me know these dreams are empty lies.
Let me die and come to life again.

In the silent darkness of my mind,
let me wonder who you really are.
Let me feel that you were just a dream.
That fades on waking like the morning star”
― Bernie Morris, Bobby's Girl

“All her pent-up misery and frustration broke loose with a vengeance, and she yelled at him, ‘You expect me to TRUST YOU?’ Her brain felt like a live coal, spitting sparks. ‘You expect me to go out with YOU! – when you tell me bare-faced LIES? D'you think I'm FUCKING STUPID?’ She slapped his face just as hard as she had the night before, then stood up and fled the length of the alley; tears streaming – hating herself – hating Bobby – hating the entire rotten, cruel, hateful world – filled with blind, savage, useless hate.
She didn't see the way he laid his head on his knees in despair, nor if he really cried.”
― Bernie Morris, Bobby's Girl

“Bobby's back yard hadn't changed since she was knee-high. It was still littered with bicycle bits and pieces of engine that he was always tinkering with. It looked like the same relentless weeds bravely struggled through the cracked flagstones; the same array of socks and T-shirts flapped on the washing line, though somewhat bigger, and even the same wasps droned around the dustbin. That's how it seemed – a place immune to time.”
― Bernie Morris, Bobby's Girl

“In my house, to this very day, in the bottom of a deep drawer, wrapped in a plastic bag to guard against time and dust - lies a white, fluffy, toy bear. It has blue glass eyes. Sometimes I take this out of its wrapper, just to hold it, and remember…
And that is all that remains in this world - of the sweetest thing.”
― Bernie Morris, Bobby's Girl

“A lady is a female person who has the grace to consider the feelings of others before her own, at all times, and in all places. It has nothing to do with fine clothes or posh accent, or how much money her father's got. A lady is naturally born and cannot be moulded or trained to be anything else. She just is.”
― Bernie Morris, Bobby's Girl

“Times change and people change, and you can never go back to the way things were and find them to be the same - they won't be.”
― Bernie Morris, Bobby's Girl

“Times change and people change - and you can never go back to the way things were and find them to be the same - they won't be.”
― Bernie Morris, Bobby's Girl

“A lady is a female person who has the grace to consider the feelings of others before her own, at all times, and in all places. It has nothing to do with fine clothes or posh accent, or how much money her father's got. And it don't even matter if she smokes, drinks, or never observes the finer points of unnecessary etiquette. None of these things have anything to do with it unless they conflict with the first rule. In other words, it depends who she's with. A lady is naturally born and cannot be moulded or trained to be anything else. She just is.”
― Bernie Morris, Bobby's Girl

“Recovery

The time has come for tears to start again,
Those faithful tears that always ease the pain.
Release the raging rivers of my soul!
Let me drown and then rise up again.

Let me drown until the river dries,
Until the numbing coldness settles in.
See the world once more with empty eyes,
No spark of warmth can penetrate the skin.
Crash the thunder! Howl the wind!
Freeze my heart and beat the driving rain!
Let me know these dreams are empty lies.
Let me die and come to life again.

In the silent darkness of my mind,
Let me wonder who you really are.
Let me feel that you were just a dream.
That fades on waking like the morning star…”
― Bernie Morris, Bobby's Girl

“They say that time is the greatest healer, but let me tell you this: there are some things that can never be healed. Sometimes you think these things are gone and can never hurt you again - like a snake in a basket - quite safe, until you take off the lid. I have taken the lid off the basket, and the snake still bites. Its fangs are long and sharp.”
― Bernie Morris, Bobby's Girl