“When I reached the street I didn't know whether to go right or left. Soon I'd have to start acting like a person who cared about what happened to him.” LifeLeftCaringMeaningRightPersonDirectionStreet Book:The Name of the World Source: The Name of the World
“Will you believe me when I tell you there was kindness in his heart? His left hand didn't know what his right hand was doing. It was only that certain important connections had been burned through. If I opened up your head and ran a hot soldering iron around in your brain, I might turn you into someone like that.” IfsKnowsBelieveHeartImportantHandsMightCertainTurnsLeftBrainKindnessConnectionsHotRanIronBelieve In MeBurnedLeft Hand Book:Jesus' Son: Stories Source: Jesus' Son: Stories
“When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, and fired it at me five times from right across the table. But she missed. It wasn't my life she was after. It was more. She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.” GivingHeartChildrenDoneWantedMotherFallJesusLostLeftHurtFiveBirthMy HeartTwentiesTablesArguingDesertKneesKitchenFourthHurt MePistols Book:Jesus' Son: Stories Source: Jesus' Son: Stories
“It was only when you left it alone that a tree might treat you as a friend. After the blade bit in, you had yourself a war.” WarMightLeftBitsTreeTreatsBlades Book:Train Dreams Source: Train Dreams
“And with each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me. And then I would remember I had a wife at home who loved me, or later that my wife had left me and I was terrirfied, or again later that I had a beautiful alcoholic girlfriend who would make me happy forever. But every time I entered the place there were veiled faces promising everything and then clarifying quickly into the dull, the usual, looking up at me and making the same mistake.” HeartPersonsHomeBeautifulRememberFacesLeftMistakeStepsForeverWifeMy HeartMy WifeBrokeGirlfriendDullUsualAlcoholicsMake Me HappySame MistakesHeart BrokeClarifyingMaking The Same Mistakes Author:Denis Johnson
