"Just After Sunset" Quotes

The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.

You couldn't help but think that you were only a passenger on a ship that was driven by the storm.

Endings are heartless. An ending is a closed door no man can open.

The most basic fear was the fear of the unknown.

There are some things that can't be changed. You just have to learn to live with them.

The way you avoid getting hurt is by not caring. But not caring doesn't work. It just makes things worse.

The more you loved someone, the harder it was to watch them change. The more it hurt.

The moon, like a flower in the high arch of heaven, with silent delight, sits and smiles on the night.

It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.

Sometimes God gives us an opportunity to grow, but we don't recognize it because it looks like a problem.