Such Kindness Quotes

“These new screws in my hips and pelvis are larger and made of “better material,” my doctor told me, “though why some people have pain and others don’t is a mystery.” But there are days when it’s hard to take, and though I am in no hurry for it, I sometimes, without sadness, welcome thoughts of the inevitable, the one thing that will release me from all this.”
― Andre Dubus III, Such Kindness: A Novel

“But aren’t these shoulds just the iron buttresses of false wants? Who’s to say where any of us should be and what we should be doing at any one time?”
― Andre Dubus III, Such Kindness: A Novel

“it’s just a lone instrument in the orchestra of pain I’ve endured daily and nightly for years,”
― Andre Dubus III, Such Kindness: A Novel

“Siddhartha, the feeling that real life might just be inside us, not out there on our patchy lawns or in our cars or offices or job sites or malls or bars or dead-end streets or city sidewalks, but inside us, where the dreams of others merged with our own so that we were all bigger than before and no one was just one.”
― III Dubus, Andre, Such Kindness: A Novel