Colton Gentry's Third Act Quotes

“Choose beauty and sorrow over numbness and oblivion. Choose it again and again. Choose it as long as you have any choice.”
― Jeff Zentner, Colton Gentry's Third Act: A Novel

“Sometimes, on the grand cosmic scale, the certainty of joy must outweigh the mere possibility of catastrophe.”
― Jeff Zentner, Colton Gentry's Third Act

“Maybe love doesn’t die when you run from it. Maybe it waits by the door for you to come home.”
― Jeff Zentner, Colton Gentry's Third Act: A Novel

“Sometimes the wind that pushes your house off its foundation carries you to a flowering garden.”
― Jeff Zentner, Colton Gentry's Third Act

“Silence is fertile soil for grief to grow like creeping vines and cover you up.”
― Jeff Zentner, Colton Gentry's Third Act

“Grief undermines your structural integrity. It crazes your foundation.”
― Jeff Zentner, Colton Gentry's Third Act: A Novel

“We could solve crime if our country made folks less desperate for some shred of dignity.”
― Jeff Zentner, Colton Gentry's Third Act

“Grief is an arsonist, stealing in under cover of dark to reduce you to ashes. You can expect it or not. But you can't prepare for it, and there's no defense. Well, one maybe: self-immolate first.”
― Jeff Zentner, Colton Gentry's Third Act: A Novel

“When you’ve loved someone, it changes you, I believe. At the cellular, DNA level. They have my DNA, so they were born to love you.”
― Jeff Zentner, Colton Gentry's Third Act

“There was never a moment when I wanted anything but the best for you. Not when I was at my lowest, feeling hurt and broken and abandoned. I’ve always been in your corner, even when I didn’t think you were in mine.”
― Jeff Zentner, Colton Gentry's Third Act

“They gripped one another like they were clinging to the same riverbank root to keep from being swept downstream and parted forever.”
― Jeff Zentner, Colton Gentry's Third Act

“She had this unerring instinct for little movements and mannerisms that drove him wild with desire. Or maybe it’s that everything she did was settling him aflame.”
― Jeff Zentner, Colton Gentry's Third Act

“He he’d no warrant to hope that a girl who loved architecture and watching storms had somehow shown up this once to watch a football game, but that’s not how hope works.”
― Jeff Zentner, Colton Gentry's Third Act

“Grief is so much worse when you’re morning many things, including the deaths of essential pieces of yourself.”
― Jeff Zentner, Colton Gentry's Third Act

“Grief is an arsonist, stealing in under cover of dark to reduce you to ashes. You can expect it or not. But you can’t prepare for it, and there’s no defense.”
― Jeff Zentner, Colton Gentry's Third Act: A Novel

“Colton raises a finger, then slowly leans forward and bangs his forehead on the table, rattling their glasses.”
― Jeff Zentner, Colton Gentry's Third Act: A Novel

“Grief is so much worse when you’re mourning many things, including the deaths of essential pieces of yourself.”
― Jeff Zentner, Colton Gentry's Third Act: A Novel

“The first time I quit on you, it was to protect me. This time, it's to protect you.”
― Jeff Zentner, Colton Gentry's Third Act

“People change, bro. They grow up. They soften. They learn to forgive.”
― Jeff Zentner, Colton Gentry's Third Act

“I've never written a song, but I gotta think composing the elements of a song is similar to assembling the parts of a recipe.”
― Jeff Zentner, Colton Gentry's Third Act

“Grief is so much worse when you're mourning many things, including the deaths of essential pieces of yourself.”
― Jeff Zentner, Colton Gentry's Third Act

“Maybe love doesn't die when you run from it. Maybe it waits by the door for you to come home.”
― Jeff Zentner, Colton Gentry's Third Act: A Novel

“His heart leapt like a murmuration of starlings taking flight. Every reach of him filled with light. He wondered how anyone survived this feeling he'd just named. This delirious sweetness. Maybe no one did. Maybe that was the point.”
― Jeff Zentner, Colton Gentry's Third Act