"The Pugilist at Rest" Quotes
A collection of gritty and poignant short stories that explore the complexities of human nature through the lens of boxing and war.
short stories | 240 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
There is no mercy in a broken heart.
Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don't know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life. It's that terrible precision that we hate so much. But because we don't know, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.
You have to be careful who you let define your good.
You can't outrun your own mind.
You can't save anybody. All you can do is love them.
The soul is big, vast, and wondrous. The soul is also small, petty, and mean. The soul is the whole of things.
The mind is always searching for meaning, but sometimes you have to let go and just be.
Sometimes the only way to find peace is through violence.
Time heals wounds, but it also leaves scars.
We are all broken, but some of us are just better at hiding it.
