Quotes from Chris Lynch

This is the time to be super aggressive

Don't fuck yourself waiting for fair. Understand? Listening? You will fuck yourself waiting for fair.

Sometimes seeing everything just gets in the way.

Fate is a bitch, but there you go.

I thought about mistakes I had made in the past. I thought about when things went wrong. And I realized it was never an issue of intent, but of intensity. I was a good guy, recall.

We have a piano in this house that exists solely for the purpose of supporting her photograph.

The right word at the right time helps you make sense of the world. It helps, but sometimes not a lot.

That's the beauty of the text, I find. You can key in things you would never say, and it hardly hurts a bit.

This is the saddest place on Earth," I say. "Take it from a rat, kid--there are lots of saddest places on Earth.

They have this majestic, glorious agony that they reawaken every day just by awakening.

Life goes on," she says, like a dare.

I hate it hen people I love refuse to speak to me.

No, if divisions were bananas, the First would be second, and the Second would be top.

sweat dared to appear under the arms of Gigi Boudakian where sweat should never ever be, creeping down her sides like poison ivy staining a lovely satin garden wall. We

You were not alone. All that time. You were lonely

The ocean takes care of its own business, dumps what it wants to on the shore and takes back what it wants. Sand castles, teddy bears or heads and bodies. The wind and tide decide.

You don't seem the type to be afraid," you say. "That's appearances for ya," she says.

That's how it was supposed to be, and you really prefer things to be the way they are supposed to be. Funny, when you find things to be not to your liking you try to force them to be otherwise.

If so, why do you listen? Is it authority because it is in your head? Or is it in your head because it is authority?

I could have done something in there to stop it, that first day, before it got too far along. There'd be no stopping it, after that first day. I could have done it, if only I were a different kind of guy. But I'm not. I'm exactly this kind of guy. I'm all I've got, and I never claimed to have anything better to work with. *

Your family should be there. Your family should always be there. What does it say about you if they aren't?