He looked at me intently, from what seemed behind the veil of a grave experience. Then slowly and prophetically, he said the scariest thing I'd ever heard: "Because the answer to a heartfelt question, Jack, will always break your heart.
Thomas H. CookStichwörter: truth questions heartbreak
The last best hope of life is that at some point during living it, all that you did wrong will suddenly teach you to do right.
Thomas H. Cook...I decided that there was perhaps no ash quite so cold as the one left by an unrealized ambition...
Thomas H. CookA man with no one to revere, Julian said, is a man alone.' At that moment, he seemed to consider such loneliness the worst of fates, a sentence he would not have imposed upon the vilest man on earth. And yet, at times, I thought now, he had seemed to impose that very loneliness upon himself.
Thomas H. CookIt’s not that we grow old, I thought, but that we grow old in decline and discomfort, and these hardships are made worse by the awareness that nothing will improve. No coming days will dawn brighter than the last that dawned, and this sorrow is further deepened by a fear of death…
Thomas H. CookIt is important to keep old things, he insisted, because it was through them alone that new things could be judged.
Thomas H. CookPerspective gets lost in moral certainties. Which only means that no one was ever burned at the stake by a doubter.
Thomas H. CookStichwörter: morality perspective
Loretta’s eyes flashed. “Is that what gets you through the night, Philip?” she asked. “Choosing to believe something, whether it’s true or not?”
“In one way or another, Loretta, isn’t that what gets everyone through the night?” I asked.
When he died, I felt like a dark, devouring force had been stilled at last. I wore his death like wings.
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