Our Souls at Night
Kent Haruf
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Who does ever get what they want? It doesn’t seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It’s always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out old ideas and dreams and mistaken understandings.”
“I do love this physical world. I love this physical life with you. And the air and the country. The backyard, the gravel in the back alley. The grass. The cool nights. Lying in bed talking with you in the dark.”
“Who would have thought at this time in our lives that we’d still have something like this. That it turns out we’re not finished with changes and excitements. And not all dried up in body and spirit.”
“I made up my mind I’m not going to pay attention to what people think. I’ve done that too long—all my life. I’m not going to live that way anymore.”
“You have been good for me. What more could anyone ask for? I’m a better person than I was before we got together. That’s your doing.”
“I just want to live simply and pay attention to what's happening each day.”
“But we didn’t know anything in our twenties when we were first married. It was all just instinct and the patterns we’d grown up with.”
“Who would have thought at this time in our lives that we’d still have something like this.”
“So life hasn't turned out right for either of us, not the way we expected,' he said. 'Except it feels good now, at this moment.”
“Sins of omission, Louis said. You don’t believe in sins. I believe there are failures of character, like I said before. That’s a sin.”
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Book Keywords:
couples, love, wisdom, reflection, life, life-lessons, relationships, simple-life, dreams, marriage
