The Chalk Man Quotes

“What shapes us is not always our achievements but our omissions. Not lies; simply the truths we don’t tell.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

“There are some things in life you can alter–your weight, your appearance, even your name–but there are others that wishing and trying and working hard can never make any difference to. Those things are the ones that shape us. Not the things we can change, but the ones we can't.”
― C.J. tudor, The Chalk Man

“We think we want answers. But what we really want are the right answers. Human nature. We ask questions that we hope will give us the truth we want to hear. The problem is, you can’t choose your truths. Truth has a habit of simply being the truth. The only real choice you have is whether to believe it or not.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

“Being an adult is only an illusion. When it comes down to it I’m not sure any of us ever really grow up.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

“The thing you have to understand is that being a good person isn’t about singing hymns, or praying to some mystical, god. It isn’t about wearing a cross or going to church every Sunday. Being a good person is about how you treat others. A good person doesn’t need a religion, because they are content within themselves that they are doing the right thing.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

“You know what someone once told me? Secrets are like arseholes. We all have them. It’s just that some are dirtier than others.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

“For who are we if not the sum of our experiences, the things that we gather and collect in life? Once you strip those away, we become just a mass of flesh, bone, and blood vessels.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

“He's dead.'
'Dead?'
Funny how people always repeat that word, even though they know they've heard it correctly. A kind of denial by delay.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

“Real friends are there no matter what. Real friends are people you love and hate in equal measure but who are as much a part of you as yourself.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

“Principles are nice things. If you can afford them. I like to think I am a principled man, but then, most men do. The fact is, we all have a price, we all have buttons that can press to make us do things that are not entirely honorable. Principles do not pay the mortgage or clear our debts. A principled man is generally a man who has everything he wants or absolutely nothing to lose.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

“History itself is only ever a story, told by the ones who survive it.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

“None of it was true but rumors are like germs. They spread and multiply almost in a breath and before you know it, everyone is contaminated.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

“Never assume," my dad once told me. "To assume makes an 'ass' out of 'u' and 'me'.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

“They were chanting a lot of stuff about love but they seemed full of hate.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

“We think we want answers. But what we really want are the right answers. Human nature. We ask questions that we hope will give us the truth we want to hear. The problem is, you can't choose your truths. Truth has a habit of simply being the truth. The only real choice you have is whether to believe it or not.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

“Thin, I think, that fabric between realities. Maybe minds aren't lost. Maybe they just slip through and find a different place to wander.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

“Your world shrinks as you grow older. You become Gulliver in your very own Lilliput.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

“However, even as a kid, I could sense the anger - the venom - of those protesters. Something about their eyes, the spittle that exploded from their mouths, the way they brandished their banners like weapons. They were chanting a lot of stuff about love but they seemed full of hate.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

“Better to be a fool than an angel.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

“No one ever found any answers at the bottom of a bottle. Not the point, of course. The point of reaching the bottom of the bottle is generally to forget the questions.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

“Being an adult is only an illusion. When it comes down to it I’m not sure any of us ever really grow up. We simply grow taller and hairier. Sometimes, I still feel amazed that I am allowed to drive a car, or that I have not been found out for drinking in the pub. Beneath the veneer of adulthood, beneath the layers of experience we accrue as the years march stoically onwards, we are all still children, with scraped knees and snotty noses, who need our parents … and our friends.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

“People say there’s nothing stronger than love. They’re right. That’s why the worst atrocities are always committed in its name.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

“Love isn’t a choice. It’s a compulsion.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

“Wise man. Kids from the moment they’re born, they fill your heart with love…and terror. Especially little girls. You want to protect them from everything. And they you can’t, you feel like you’ve failed as a father. You’ve saved yourself a lot of pain by not having children.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

“...I understood how things can change in an instant. All the stuff we take for granted can just be ripped away.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

“My life is one long wreck of 'should haves', crashing into each other in a big tangled mess of regrets.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

“Assuming can trip us up in other ways too. It can stop us seeing people for who they really are and make us lose sight of the people we know.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

“Being an adult is only an illusion. When it comes down to it, I’m not sure any of us ever really grow up.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

“Karma. What you sow, you reap. You do bad things and they’ll come back eventually and bite you on the backside.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man

“I don’t think how you act in this life makes any difference after you die. Good or bad. But it does make a big difference while you’re alive. To other people. That’s why you should always try to treat them well.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man