Under the Whispering Door QUOTES

1 " What will you do with the time you have left? "

― T.J. Klune , Under the Whispering Door

2 " You’re awfully strange.”

He heard the smile in her voice. “Thank you. That might be the nicest thing you’ve ever said to me. You’re awfully strange too, Wallace Price. "

― T.J. Klune , Under the Whispering Door

3 " And you shouldn't blame yourself. Learn from it. Grow from it, but don't allow it to consume you again. Easier said than done, I know. "

― T.J. Klune , Under the Whispering Door

4 " Oh, Wallace. It's . . . the sun. "

― T.J. Klune , Under the Whispering Door

5 " Not knowing is better than pretending to know. "

― T.J. Klune , Under the Whispering Door

6 " Remember what I told you about need versus want? We don't need you because that implies you had to fix something in us. We were never broken. We want you, Wallace. Every piece. Every part. Because we're family. Can you see the difference?" (324) "

― T.J. Klune , Under the Whispering Door

7 " Never forget where you come from, but don’t allow it to define you. "

― T.J. Klune , Under the Whispering Door

8 " There’s still time left. The best thing I can do is to make the most of it. "

― T.J. Klune , Under the Whispering Door

9 " It’s not always about what we can or can’t have, but the work we put into it. "

― T.J. Klune , Under the Whispering Door

10 " My daughter pierced her septum,” Patricia said forlornly. “She looks like a bull. My little girl, wanting a matador to chase her down and stick things in her. "

― T.J. Klune , Under the Whispering Door

11 " «Noi non interferiamo mai con la morte. Non si può.» «Perché no?» «Perché è sempre lì. A prescindere da cosa fai, da che tipo di vita conduci, buona o cattiva o da qualche parte nel mezzo, la morte ti sta sempre aspettando. Si inizia a morire nell’istante in cui si nasce.»
Wallace fece un sospiro stanco. «Non puoi non sapere quanto suona triste.»
«Certo che lo so» rispose Mei. «Perché è la verità. Preferiresti che ti raccontassi bugie?»
«No. Solo… allora qual è il punto? Di tutto questo? Di tutto? Se niente di ciò che facciamo ha importanza, perché dovremmo impegnarci?»
Stava entrando in una spirale senza vie d’uscita, ne era consapevole. Una spirale d’angoscia. Aveva la pelle gelida, ma non per l’aria della sera.
Serrò i denti per impedire che sbattessero. «Perché è la tua vita» intervenne Nelson, comparendogli accanto.
«È nelle tue mani. No, non sempre è giusta. No, non sempre va bene. Può bruciare, lacerarti, a volte infierire al punto da renderti irriconoscibile.
Certe persone combattono. Altre… non ci riescono, anche se non credo che bisognerebbe biasimarle per questo. Arrendersi è facile. Tirarsi su molto meno.
Ma dobbiamo credere che se ci riusciamo, potremo fare un alto passo. Potremo…» «Andare avanti?» ribatté Wallace. «Perché tu non l’hai fatto.
Tu sei ancora qui, quindi smettila di propinarmi queste stronzate. Puoi dire quello che ti pare, ma sei ipocrita come pochi.»
«E questa è la differenza tra noi due» disse Nelson. «Io non ho mai negato di esserlo.» "

― T.J. Klune , Under the Whispering Door

12 " It’s never enough, is it? Time. We always think we have so much of it, but when it really counts, we don’t have enough at all. "

― T.J. Klune , Under the Whispering Door

13 " The first time you share tea, you are a stranger. The second time you share tea, you are an honored guest. The third time you share tea, you become family. "

― T.J. Klune , Under the Whispering Door

14 " Everyone loses their way at some point, and it’s not just because of their mistakes or the decisions they make. It’s because they’re horribly, wonderfully human. And the one thing I’ve learned about being human is that we can’t do this alone. When we’re lost, we need help to try to find our way again. "

― T.J. Klune , Under the Whispering Door

15 " If we worry about the little things all the time, we run the risk of missing the bigger things. "

― T.J. Klune , Under the Whispering Door

16 " He hoped wherever he was going that there'd still be the sun and the moon and the stars. He'd spent a majority of his life with his head turned down. It seemed only fair that eternity would allow him to raise his face toward the sky. "

― T.J. Klune , Under the Whispering Door

17 " Life is senseless, and on the off chance we find something that does make sense, we hold onto it as tightly as we can. "

― T.J. Klune , Under the Whispering Door

18 " But a river only moves in one direction, no matter how much we wish it weren't so. "

― T.J. Klune , Under the Whispering Door

19 " Death isn’t a final ending, Wallace. It is an ending, sure, but only to prepare you for a new beginning. "

― T.J. Klune , Under the Whispering Door

20 " We live and we breathe. We die, and we still feel like breathing. It’s not always the big deaths either. There are little deaths, because that’s what grief is. I "

― T.J. Klune , Under the Whispering Door