There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that does not fail us.

- Robert Goolrick

I would give anything, anything, to be the man to whom this has not happened. I can not accommodate myself to it. In a lifetime of trying, I can not …

- Robert Goolrick

The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other. No more than…

- Robert Goolrick

I wasn't safe. I wasn't permanent. My life was a fiction I had created, like an alien who comes to earth and tries to pass as human. The affections o…

- Robert Goolrick

If love drove people mad, what would lack of love do?

- Robert Goolrick

Catherine Land liked the beginnings of things. The pure white possibility of the empty room, the first kiss, the first swipe at larceny. And endings,…

- Robert Goolrick

I know that I am not the only person who is alone in the world. I know that others sorrow in the night. That others pick up a razor and slice into th…

- Robert Goolrick

It is the tenderness that breaks our hearts. The loveliness that leaves us stranded on the shore, watching the boats sail away. It is the sweetness t…

- Robert Goolrick

When you're young, and you head out to wonderful, everything is fresh and bright as a brand new penny, but before you get to wonderful you're going t…

- Robert Goolrick