Alex George Quotes

Sometimes life-changing moments slip by unnoticed, their significance only becoming apparent in the light of subsequent events.

Always, there was music.

We are all immigrants, a glorious confection of races and beliefs, united by the rock that we live on. As the years wash over us and new generations march into the future, family histories are subsumed into the greater narrative. We become, simply, Americans.

You'll leave. And then one day you'll come back, and everything you used to love about the place will drive you a little bit crazy.

From across her husband's open grave I had thought she exuded a certain foxy mystique, but now, to my disappointment, she looked just like every other mother I knew.

My grandmother's life had been one long opera. There had been drama, heroes, villains, improbable twists, all that. But most of all there had been love, great big waves of it, crashing ceaselessly against the rocks of life, bearing us all back to grace.

The answer to most prayers is no.

I need to confront my loss, not run away from it. I wanted to wade in with my eyes open and all my senses alert. I wanted to register everything, from the giant waves of sorrow to the inkiest ripples of remorse. I didn't want to miss any of it.

When he left us, he stole all the words.

I suppose we should send someone to make sure the queen does not come to the wall also," the king jested.
"I would say that it is too late for that, my lord," a feminine voice answered from the group gathered in the courtyard. They all turned to find the queen dressed in chain mail and wearing a conical helmet on her head.

When it comes to dreams and fancies and castles in the air, I have the soul of a millionaire.

There's just so much to live for.

But love and pain are two sides of the same coin. You can't have one without the other. Sometimes that's how we know we're alive.