Scott Spencer Quotes
The only things I regret, and the only things I'll ever regret are things I didn't do. In the end, that's what we mourn. The paths we didn't take. The people we didn't touch.
The trouble with excuses, however, is that they become inevitably difficult to believe after they’ve been used a couple of times.
Everything creepy and Southern isn't Faulknerian, just like everything annoying isn't Kafkaesque.
You're all I care about," I said. "No. And me. The person I am when I'm with you, the way I see myself and know myself. That person who lives only when I'm with you.
It was a once in a lifetime thing. I hate to think it but I bet it's true. It's too bad for us that our once in a lifetime happened when were too young to handle it.
No pain could match the emptiness of separation, no agony rivaled the unreality of not being with her.
I thought of my mother (...). Freud wrote that no man is secure in the love of his mother can ever be a failure. Well, I had been busy proving that theory wrong.
I never felt so large and important as I did when being in love was everything. I saw you walking a foot above the earth and I remembered that was where I used to walk.
I try to know as much as I can about a book before the beginning, but I never know exactly where it's going to end.
A novelist is someone who sits around the house all day in his underwear, trying not to smoke.
All I wanted was what I'd already had. That exultation, that love. It was my one real home; I was a visitor everywhere else.
On a ship that's made of paper, I would sail the seven seas. (Just to be with you.)
Love gives us a heightened consciousness through which to apprehend the world, but anger gives us a precise, detached perception of its own.
I wanted to tell you that the man who is your father, the man who gave you life, has found a woman who is in heaven when she's in his arms.
My first love was everything, all at once. The kind of love you fight for, the kind of boy you fight for.