Home > Work > Exley

Exley QUOTES

Exley QUOTES

1 " Some people, when desperate, retreat to pills or hard liquor. I nap. "

― Brock Clarke , Exley

2 " There's nothing as quiet as that moment before one person is about to tell another something neither of them wants to hear. "

― Brock Clarke , Exley

3 " Because this is one of the things I learned on my own: you need to say things simply, especially when they're complicated. "

― Brock Clarke , Exley

4 " Apparently, you become yourself to someone when that someone finally learns your secrets. "

― Brock Clarke , Exley

5 " And I thought that maybe this was what it means to get old: to have someone much younger remind you of how you weren't the same person you used to be. "

― Brock Clarke , Exley

6 " Because this is one of the things I learned from Exley: anything can be a beginning as long as you call it one. "

― Brock Clarke , Exley

7 " I almost touch her on the arm as she touched me on the arm, to console her. But I fear that my touch won't tingle her arm as hers tingled mine, and how unbearably sad that would be. "

― Brock Clarke , Exley

8 " Some of the books I'd read had told me that love is fleeting; some of the other books I'd read had told me that love is eternal. But they were wrong. Love isn't either of those things. Love is not wanting the thing you love to ever end. "

― Brock Clarke , Exley

9 " When we say we know something in our bones, we mean we don't know yet how we know what we know. This is what we mean by "bones. "

― Brock Clarke , Exley

10 " Maybe that's the problem with being someplace beautiful: it makes it impossible to live anywhere else that's not. "

― Brock Clarke , Exley

11 " I didn't normally talk this way: but sometimes you have to pretend to be an innocent child to learn something about the complicated world of adults. "

― Brock Clarke , Exley

12 " I opened the book to the title page, which said the book was "A Fictional Memoir." I had no idea what this meant, except that maybe it was one of the ways that Exley was crazy: maybe when he called his book a fictional memoir, it meant that he couldn't make up his mind, which is one of the things people really mean when they call someone crazy. "

― Brock Clarke , Exley

13 " If a book is made up of things that are hard to believe, then we were like something out of a book. "

― Brock Clarke , Exley

14 " Love is not wanting the thing you love to ever end. "

― Brock Clarke , Exley

15 " It was a complicated look. I remember thinking that, and I also remember thinking that you had to have known someone for a really long time to be able to look at him like that, and he had to have known you for a really long time to be able to understand it. "

― Brock Clarke , Exley

16 " And I also know that this is why love allows us to be so cruel to the beloved: so that the beloved doesn't make the mistake of loving us again or loving us for the first time. "

― Brock Clarke , Exley

17 " At the time, I thought this was just one of those vague things adults say to remind you that you're a kid who doesn't know what adults know. But it seemed now it was one of those specific things adults say to remind you that you're a kid who doesn't know what adults know. "

― Brock Clarke , Exley

18 " I confess this is an unforeseen -- unforeseen and, indeed, I did not foresee it -- by-product of journaling: in writing down the facts of one's feelings, one might leave out facts, and one might also try to convince oneself that one's fantasy is, in fact, one's fact, or at least a fact among other facts, other facts that are, in fact, facts, making it most difficult to tell the fact from the fantasy. "

― Brock Clarke , Exley

19 " I guess you don't know what kind of guy you are until you start acting like one. "

― Brock Clarke , Exley

20 " A tricky bit of business, this believing in someone else. So tricky that we would never do it, if we did not want someone, someday, to believe in us, too. "

― Brock Clarke , Exley