Quotes from Lee Martin

The measure of a man's character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

You can pretend that your life is going on when really, all along, you're trapped in a moment you'll never be able to change.

Life had gone on. It always did. that's what you learned as you got older. Time. It kept moving. You wished you could change. They were gone. They left you in a snap.

That's the way it was, always will be. nothing we can do to make it different. It's a story now, and stories have endings even when you don't know- fools like me- that you're already in the middle of one, and you're already making choices... Choices that will bring you to places you'd never thought you'd be, places in your heart you'll mourn and love the rest of your life.~Mr. Dees

sic]Keep looking up, Mama used to tell me. There's nothing on the ground but your feet.

Is it too late?" I asked Margot Cherry that afternoon. It's been more than thirty years and still I can remember how my voice shook. "How do we know when we've loved someone all that we can?

I knew if I sat there another minute, I'd never be able to get beyond everything that was going to happen from that day on. My life would disappear inside his. So I got up.

in a snap the world can fall down around you and leave you, for years and years, trying to get back to a place where once upon a time you were happy.

But there was a flip side to his fastidiousness. He saw that now. It was a nose-in-the-air way of moving through the world. In every smoothed wrinkle, every perfected motion, there was an air of moral judgment, though he didn't intend it. There were people, he implied, who lived sloppy lives, and then there were people like him. ~Gilley

Some folks can't hide things. They don't have enough, not enough money or influence or shame.

in a snap the world can fall dwon around you and leave you, for years and years, trying to get back to a place where once upon a time you were happy.

The only thing I know now is that we're all connected, everyone of us, even people we don't know.

Uncertainty is a good thing at the end of a narrative. A simultaneous gain and loss captures the complexity of human existence. The way one sentence follows another, if we pay attention to syntax and rhythm, should express the final effect we want the narrative to have on a reader.