"Revolutionary Road" Quotes
A married couple trapped in suburban complacency secretly yearn for something more, leading to a devastating unraveling of their lives.
fiction | 354 pages | Published in 2007
Quotes
No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.
Hopelessness was not the most depressing thing about the lives of the Wheelers.
If being crazy means living life as if it mattered, then I don't mind being completely insane.
It takes backbone to lead the life you want and not just the life that happens to you.
It was the emptiness that was unbearable, the sense that life might as well be lived in a vacuum.
The trouble was that from the very beginning they had been afraid they would end up like this.
But there was only the same profound love and affection she had always felt for him.
You should've joined the circus when I suggested it. You'd have made a marvelous clown.
She found the idea vaguely amusing - that her best self was someone she had never been.
How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe.
