Beach Music Quotes
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Beach Music Quotes
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“Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music
“American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music
“I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music
“No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music
“I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music
“I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music
“Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music
“Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music
“We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music
“Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music
“Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music
“But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music
“I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music
“It enclosed us in its laceries as we watched the moon spill across the Atlantic like wine from an overturned glass. With the light all around us, we felt secret in that moon-infused water like pearls forming in the soft tissues of oysters.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music
“Love's action. It isn't talk and it never has been.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music
“…Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect that we knew by instinct not to speak—and then as quickly as they had come, the porpoises moved away from us…Each of us would remember that all during our lives. It was the purest moment of freedom and headlong exhilaration that I had ever felt. A wordless covenant was set, and I would go back in my imagination, and return to where happiness seemed so easy to touch.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music
“Like everything else, love's not worth much without some action to back it up.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music
“Because she deserved my tears if anyone on earth ever did. I could feel the tears within me, undiscovered, and untouched in their inland sea. Those tears had been with me always.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music
“She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music
“Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to strangers.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music
“Looking around, I thought the human species was in fine shape and tried to think of something more beautiful than women and couldn't come up with a thing. The propagation of the species was a dance of total joy.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music
“Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music
“One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music
“The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music
“And I was glad she had the camera as a fence to protect herself, an excuse to be invisible. Cameras are a lifesaver for the very shy people who have nowhere else to hide.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music
“Words are pretty, but anyone can talk. Pay attention to the people who perform.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music
“The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music
“Her view of men was one-dimensional, but not inaccurate: men were prisoners of their genitalia and women were the keepers of the keys to paradise.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music
“It was a time in my life when many things bored me deeply and I hungered for beauty and those realms of pure elation granted to those who had the imagination to know what to look for and how to find it.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music
“Paranoia has a sharper taste if the danger is real.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music