"Night Road" Quotes
A turbulent story of love and loss as a tragic accident leads to heartbreak and redemption for a young woman and the family she grows to love.
fiction | 385 pages | Published in 2011
Quotes
In the end, it doesn't matter how many breaths you take, but how many moments take your breath away.
Maybe it was true that you couldn't ever go home again, not because it wasn't there, but because you weren't.
Grief is like the wake behind a boat. It starts out as a huge wave that follows close behind you and is big enough to swamp and drown you. Over time, the wake gets smaller and smaller, until it's finally just waves. The big wave never really goes away, but it becomes a manageable part of your life.
The things that mattered were the things they couldn't control - the only things that mattered.
Life was a series of pulls back and forth… A fragile web of interdependencies. All of them tugging at him.
Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.
Sometimes a fire in the hearth is better than a fire in the belly.
The world was so big and full of so many things. It was easy to forget what mattered.
Life was about hope - and the absence of it was despair.
Maybe that was the only way you could keep from falling apart. Maybe you had to be a little bit in love with death to stay alive.
