When a woman makes the choice to marry, to have children; in one way her life begins but in another way it stops. You build a life of details. You become a mother, a wife and you stop and stay steady so that your children can move. And when they leave they take your life of details with them. And then you're expected move again only you don't remember what moves you because no-one has asked in so long. Not even yourself.
Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away. - Robert James Waller
Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.
- Robert James Waller
The overriding problem with our country, and our world in general, is that we are, in large part, managed by incompetents. Most of these are men who … - Robert James Waller
The overriding problem with our country, and our world in general, is that we are, in large part, managed by incompetents. Most of these are men who …
And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than eve… - Robert James Waller
And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than eve…
There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them. - Robert James Waller
There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them.
We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us. - Robert James Waller
We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us.
And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and gypsies. - Robert James Waller
And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and gypsies.
The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them. - Robert James Waller
The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.
This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime! - Robert James Waller
This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime!
In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live. - Robert James Waller
In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live.
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