The Marriage of Sticks Quotes

“Dogs are here to remind us life really is a simple thing. You eat, sleep, take walks, and pee when you must. That's about all there is. They are quick to forgive trespasses and assume strangers will be kind.”
― Jonathan Carroll, The Marriage of Sticks

“Look around you. Watch how people function and interact with one another. You'll see this is going on everywhere all the time. People devour each other in the name of love, or family or country. But that's an excuse; they're just hungry and want to be fed. Read their faces, the newspapers, read what it says on their T-shirts! 'I think you're mistaking me for someone who gives a shit.' 'My parents went to London but all they brought me back was this lousy T-shirt.' 'So many women, so little time.' 'Whoever dies with the most toys, wins.' They're supposed to be funny, witty, and postmodern, Miranda. But the truth is they're only stating a fact: Me. I come first. Get out of my way.”
― Jonathan Carroll, The Marriage of Sticks

“Far more disturbing than any spook house at an amusement park is a ride through the old hometown if you've been away for years.”
― Jonathan Carroll, The Marriage of Sticks

“One of the reasons why I liked living in Manhattan was that the city would share your mood the moment you walked out the door. If you were in a hurry, everything else was too, even the pigeons. You shared the same speed and sense of urgency to get wherever you were going.
When you had time to kill, it was happy to give you things to look at and do that easily took up whole days. I didn't agree with people who said Manhattan was a cold, indifferent town. Sure it was gruff, but it was also playful and sometimes very funny.”
― Jonathan Carroll, The Marriage of Sticks

“Old age arrives like the first days of fall. One afternoon you look up, or smell something in the air, and know instinctively things have changed.”
― Jonathan Carroll, The Marriage of Sticks

“I wish I knew the flavor of my happiness.”
― Jonathan Carroll, The Marriage of Sticks

“In the end, each of us has only one story to tell. It takes a lifetime to live that story but sometimes less than an hour to tell it. The”
― Jonathan Carroll, The Marriage of Sticks

“I'd say I'm living, but I'm not alive without you”
― Jonathan Carroll, The Marriage of Sticks