Emily Verona > Emily's Quotes

“Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

“I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
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― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“The heart's in it then, spinning dreams, and torment is on the way. The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.”
― Daniel Woodrell, Winter's Bone

“I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.”
― Daniel Woodrell, Tomato Red

“I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“There's always something about people who have known each other since childhood. Explanations meant very little to us. Excuses meant even less.”
― Emily Ruth Verona, Steady Is The Fall

“Facts. Smooth, flat, undeniable facts. If only I could keep them straight.”
― Emily Ruth Verona, Steady Is The Fall

“Larry used to say death ran in our family. When I would tell him that it ran in everybody's he'd simply hunch forward, hold up a finger and shake his head. 'Not like in ours,' he'd say, 'Not like in ours.”
― Emily Ruth Verona, Steady Is The Fall

“I clutched the handle of the door. Squeezed it. Settled my other hand along the doorway and prayed. Not for anything in particular. Just for the sake of doing it. To see if it would change things. To see if it would change me.”
― Emily Ruth Verona, Steady Is The Fall