Come with Me Quotes

“No one thinks when they first meet a person that there is some cosmic clock counting down the years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds until you stop knowing each other. It doesn't occur to most people when you meet the person with whom you wish to spend the rest of your life that, at some point, one of you will leave. Sure, everyone knows this on a practical level--everyone dies, no one lives forever--but no one looks their spouse in the eye on the night of their wedding and actually hears the ticking of that clock. Its sound is buried far beneath the flash and glamour of what we think our futures hold for us. But it's there; don't be fooled. It ticks for all of us.”
― Ronald Malfi, Come with Me

“Because that’s what grief does. It robs us of a part of ourselves, leaving a crater of madness and irrationality in its place.”
― Ronald Malfi, Come with Me

“There is a word in Japanese, yugen, that has no English equivalent. In Japanese, it is the awareness that the universe transmits a profound and mysterious beauty that can only be understood by the man or woman engaged in the comparable beauty of human suffering.”
― Ronald Malfi, Come with Me

“We haunt ourselves. In the end, if we don’t come to peace with it, if we can’t resolve it, we haunt ourselves.”
― Ronald Malfi, Come with Me

“No one thinks when they first meet a person that there is some cosmic clock counting down the years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds until you will stop knowing each other.”
― Ronald Malfi, Come with Me

“Some may say that our destinies are etched in stone from the moment of our births, but I don't believe that. I think that life is what you make of it and the choices are yours. Free will asserts that we all must live with the consequences of our actions.”
― Ronald Malfi, Come with Me

“There existed such a clearly visible blueprint for misery—particularly for teenage girls—yet everyone always seemed to ignore it.”
― Ronald Malfi, Come with Me

“People put locks on things when they want to keep them safe. People put locks on things when they don’t want other people to see what they’re hiding inside.”
― Ronald Malfi, Come with Me

“what grief does. It robs us of a part of ourselves, leaving a crater of madness and irrationality in its place.”
― Ronald Malfi, Come with Me

“You once said to me that you and I existed outside this plane, where space and time were wound into a ball and not in a straight line. We would always be together because we had always been together. We were acting out all our moments simultaneously right now. Ghosts, you had told me, were time travelers not bound by the here and now.”
― Ronald Malfi, Come with Me

“Because, sometimes, books are therapy.”
― Ronald Malfi, Come with Me

“But this is America, where tragedies roll along on a conveyor belt with alacrity. One is boxed up and shipped out just as another arrives, shiny and new, on the showroom floor.”
― Ronald Malfi, Come with Me

“You see, part of me had blinked out of existence right along with you—another consequence of the marital union—and what was left in the aftermath only retained the barest essence of a human being.”
― Ronald Malfi, Come with Me

“The sensation of you simultaneously having fled from me and yet seeping into my pores invaded my brain, blurred my sight. There was a presence in the house now. I would catch a whiff of your Tommy Girl perfume in the upstairs hallway. I would glimpse movement in the periphery of my vision, but whenever looked, there was nothing there. In bed, I'd be sliding toward sleep only to feel your lips brush my forehead, just as they did on the morning you died. The hopeful and hallucinatory mind of the aggrieved, perhaps, although I began to wonder if there wasn't some echo of you that persisted in this house—the dark stain of you, and the life that had been cut short.”
― Ronald Malfi, Come with Me

“We will always be together because we have always been together. We are acting out all our moments simultaneously right now. Ghosts are time travelers not bound by the here and now.”
― Ronald Malfi, Come with Me

“Sometimes I think God favors drunks and bastards.”
― Ronald Malfi, Come with Me

“No one thinks when they first meet a person that there is some cosmic clock counting down the years, months, weeks, days, hours,”
― Ronald Malfi, Come with Me

“KEEP EARTH CLEAN, IT’S NOT URANUS for”
― Ronald Malfi, Come with Me