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The Other People QUOTES

The Other People QUOTES

1 " People say hate and bitterness will destroy you. They’re wrong. It’s hope. Hope will devour you from the inside like a parasite. It will leave you hanging like bait above a shark. But hope won’t kill you. It’s not that kind. "

― C.J. Tudor , The Other People

2 " You’re fading, slipping from my memories. Because memories are only as strong as the people who hold onto them. And I’m tired. I don’t know if I can hold on for much longer. "

― C.J. Tudor , The Other People

3 " But she had done a lot of things over the last three years that she had never thought herself capable of. None of us know, until pushed, what our limits truly are. How far we would go for those we love. "

― C.J. Tudor , The Other People

4 " People tried to make sense of tragedy, when the point of tragedy was that it was senseless. Bad things didn't happen for a greater reason. They just happened. "

― C.J. Tudor , The Other People

5 " We talk about life like it's some magical elixer yet life is your own slow crawl along the dead man's mile. Doesn't matter how many diversions you take, eventually we're all heading one way. The only difference is how long the journey takes."
-The Other People "

― C.J. Tudor , The Other People

6 " There was only one problem with hatred, Gabe thought. And it wasn't that it would eat you up or destroy you. That was bullshit. Hatred could fuel you through the worst of times. Grief, despair, terror. Live and forgiveness might keep you warm, but hatred would power your rocket all the way to the moon.

No, the problem was that, eventually, hatred burned itself out. "

― C.J. Tudor , The Other People

7 " Honk if you’re horny. "

― C.J. Tudor , The Other People

8 " It was easy to imagine that other people had the fairy tale, but the truth was the shiny front doors, hanging baskets and neatly mown lawns didn't tell the whole story. "

― C.J. Tudor , The Other People

9 " You're fading, slipping from my memories. Because memories are only as strong as the people who hold onto them. And I'm tired. I don't know if I can hold on for much longer. "

― C.J. Tudor , The Other People

10 " Death might be indiscriminate, but time is merciless. "

― C.J. Tudor , The Other People

11 " And then she had burst into tears. One of those sudden violent storms of emotion that gather and break out of nowhere. "

― C.J. Tudor , The Other People

12 " She knew how easily things could be lost. Life, family, love. It was all so fragile. "

― C.J. Tudor , The Other People

13 " It wasn't helping. It never did. Problems float, she thought. "

― C.J. Tudor , The Other People

14 " Children were much more accepting. Of change, of new people. Which was what made them so vulnerable. "

― C.J. Tudor , The Other People

15 " When children are scared, they bundle up like hedgehogs, all tightly bound, spikes out. But at some point, especially when they're tired and hungry, they have to let it go. "

― C.J. Tudor , The Other People

16 " You don't need another person to make your life complete. But life, like a jigsaw with missing pieces, is hard to complete on your own. "

― C.J. Tudor , The Other People

17 " Glorious hindsight. But hindsight isn’t glorious. Hindsight is a shabby conman. A gameshow host in a gold lamé suit and bad hairpiece who mockingly shows you what you could have won: "

― C.J. Tudor , The Other People

18 " We’re all capable of good and bad. Very few of us show our real faces to the world. For fear that the world might stare back and scream. "

― C.J. Tudor , The Other People

19 " A long pause. A swollen, stifling silence. The sort of silence, he thought, that brims with unspoken words. Words that are about to completely fuck up your life. "

― C.J. Tudor , The Other People

20 " But he had a different kind of illness. A sickness of the heart and soul. The best medicine and doctors in the world wouldn't cure what afflicted this man. Nothing could. "

― C.J. Tudor , The Other People