Robert James Waller Quotes

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 ever before.

The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces.

Life is never easy for those who dream.

Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.

In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live.

There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them.

I sometimes have the feeling you've been here a long time, more than one lifetime, and that you've dwelt in private places none of the rest of us has even dreamed about.

We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us.

The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.

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.

Once a person knows a kiss and a kind word, you can't blame him for never wanting to live without them again. - "The Bridges of Madison County"

Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.

First you must have the images, then come the words.

It's kind of strange-- in fiction you get to tell lies and are applauded for it.

if only we lost our minds and arrived at our hearts

Complex things are easy to do. Simplicity's the real challenge.

One great love in a single lifetime was enough for anyone.

The curse of modern times is the propensity of male hormones in places where they can do the most damage

Such physical matters were nice, yet, to him, intelligence and passion born of living, the ability to move and be moved by subtleties of the mind and spirit, were what really counted.

Anyone who can feel that way about a woman is worth lovin himself.

The reality is not exactly what the song started out to be, but it's not a bad song.

The heart never forgets, never gives up, the territory marked off for those who came before.

I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea

This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime!

The market kills more artistic passion than anything else.

An inherent kindness exists in the process of aging ... we are allowed to move along gradually.

We're all getting lashed to the great wheel of uniformity.

We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us. Christ, we're in love. As deeply, as profoundly, as it's possible to be in love.