Craig Silvey Quotes

Sorry.
Sorry means you feel the pulse of other people's pain as well as your own, and saying it means you take a share of it. And so it binds us together, makes us trodden and sodden as one another. Sorry is a lot of things. It's a hole refilled. A debt repaid. Sorry is the wake of misdeed. It's the crippling ripple of consequence. Sorry is sadness, just as knowing is sadness. Sorry is sometimes self-pity. But Sorry, really, is not about you. It's theirs to take or leave.
Sorry means you leave yourself open, to embrace or to ridicule or to revenge. Sorry is a question that begs forgiveness, because the metronome of a good heart won't settle until things are set right and true. Sorry doesn't take things back, but it pushes things forward. It bridges the gap. Sorry is a sacrament. It's an offering. A gift. ~ Craig Silvey

I need to narrow things down, start pruning back. Until then, I'm a whirring zoetrope of half-thoughts and worries. ~ Craig Silvey

There's no such thing as God, Charlie, at least not how they say. Just like there's no such thing as Zeus or Apollo or bloody unicorns. You're on your own. And that can make you feel either lonely or powerful. When you're born, you wither luck out or you don't. It's a lottery. Tough shit or good on yer. But from there, it's all up to you… soon as you can walk and talk, you start makin your own luck. And I don't need some spirit in the sky to help me do that. I can do it on me own. But see, that's what I reckon God really is, Charlie. It's that part inside me that's stronger and harder than anything else. And I reckon prayer is just trusting in it, having faith in it, just asking meself to be tough. And that's all you can do. I don't need a bunch of bullshit stories about towers and boats and floods or rules about sin. It's all just a complicated way to get to that place in you, and it's not honest either. I don't need to trick meself into thinking anyone else is listenin', or even cares. Because it doesn't matter. I matter. And I know I'll be alright. Because I got a good heart, and fuck this town for making me try and believe otherwise. It's what you come with and what you leave with. And that's all I got. ~ Craig Silvey

And so I think I got married because I thought that a ring would lock that love in forever, because it's very scary when it is just your feelings holding you together ~ Craig Silvey

What I'm feeling, I think, is joy. And it's been some time since I've felt that blinkered rush of happiness, This might be one of those rare events that lasts, one that'll be remembered and recalled as months and years wind and ravel. One of those sweet, significant moments that leaves a footprint in your mind. A photograph couldn't ever tell its story. It's like something you have to live to understand. One of those freak collisions of fizzing meteors and looming celestial bodies and floating debris and one single beautiful red ball that bursts into your life and through your body like an enormous firework. Where things shift into focus for a moment, and everything makes sense. And it becomes one of those things inside you, a pearl among sludge, one of those big exaggerated memories you can invoke at any moment to peel away a little layer of how you felt, like a lick of ice cream. The flavor of grace. ~ Craig Silvey

How strange and abandoned and unsettled I am. Like a snowdome paper weight that's been shaken. There's a blizzard in my bubble. Everything in my world that was steady and sure and sturdy has been shaken out of place, and it's now drifting and swirling back down in a confetti of debris. (p30) ~ Craig Silvey

I feel as though I should say something profound, or enact some rite, or trade something to make it official. I want to transfer some trinket which would allow me to say that she's my girl, some kind of currency that proves to people that she likes me back. Something that would permit me to think about her all the time without feeling guilty or helpless or hopelessly far away. I guess I'm just so excited, I want to cage this thing like a tiny red bird so if can't fly away, so it stays the same, so it's still there the next time. For keeps, like a coin in your pocket. Like a peach pit from Mad Jack Lionel's tree. Like scribbled words in a locked suitcase. A bright balloon to tie to your bedpost. And you want to hug it close, hold it, but not so tight it bursts. ~ Craig Silvey

And it happens like that. Like when you first realize that there is no such thing as magic. Or that nothing actually answers your prayers, or really even listens. That cold moment of dismay where your feet are kicked from under you, where you're disarmed by a shard of knowing. ~ Craig Silvey

Every instance in my life, I've felt like the exact opposite of Superman. Except this time, this moment right now. I don't care. I don't feel like a weak, insipid sissy. Because right now I know I would save the girl. I know that I would rather risk the planet than let harm befall Eliza Wishart. I would save her in a second. Because I can imagine her and me huddled safe together while the earth falls under evil designs, but I can't imagine the world without her in it. ~ Craig Silvey

I think most of the time when I'm yelling at my husband, I'm just yelling at myself. ~ Craig Silvey

I bid you a Jew. ~ Craig Silvey

Life might be easier if you give in a little, but it's better if you hold onto something so hard you can't give it up. ~ Craig Silvey

I'm excited but afraid. I long to turn and wedge myself through the horse's arse from which I've just fallen, to sit safe in the hot womb of my room. But this is Jasper Jones, and he and come to me. ~ Craig Silvey

Batman doesn't have any superpowers. He's not superhuman. He's not super. So therefore he can't be a superhero. ~ Craig Silvey

I never understood why you would ever feel the need to shoot the fish in the barrel. I mean, they're in a barrel, you've already caught them. The hard work's done, they can't escape. So if you want them dead, just drain the water out. Why bring guns into it? ~ Craig Silvey

Well, see, I think it's that most people don't like that lonely feeling. People don't like looking up and feeling small or lost. That's what I think prayer is all about. It doesn't matter which stories they believe in, they're all doing the same thing, kind of casting a line out to outer space, like there's something out there to connect to. It's like people make themselves part of something bigger that way, and maybe it makes them less afraid. ~ Craig Silvey

I don't mean to pry, but saving people is my calling. Yours vigilantly,
The Masked Avenger ~ Craig Silvey

My brain is a vast, barren, jokeless plain where wolves howl at the moon over rocky overhangs and the wind kicks up twists of sand and tumbleweed. ~ Craig Silvey

I wonder if I'll ever be without fear… Maybe it's not about being without it. Maybe it's about how well you walk with the weight. ~ Craig Silvey

I force a smile and hold up my hand, which must end up looking like some sort of strange, leery wince, like I've just swallowed a glass of somebody's urine and I'm recommending it. ~ Craig Silvey

You need to understand that truth is stranger than fiction. Listen: people are willing to swallow any old tripe as long as you say it without flinching. They want to be told stuff. And they don't want to doubt you either. It's too hard. ~ Craig Silvey

And I realize I've been betrayed by the two vices that fiction promised me I'd adore. Sal Paradise held up bottles of booze like a housewife in a detergent commercial. Holden Caulfield reached for his cigarettes like an act of faith. Even Huckleberry Finn tapped on his pipe with relief and satisfaction. If sex turns out to be this bad, I'm never reading again. ~ Craig Silvey

A tree
doesn't know it's a tree.
It doesn't know how pretty its flowers are,
or how beautiful they smell,
or how soft and sweet its fruit is,
It can't feel how warm I am with my arms around it.
It can't hear me when I tell it these things.
It doesn't know anything.
I'm glad you're not a tree. ~ Craig Silvey

I thought that having someone to love, having someone love me back, made me a stronger person. But it was the opposite. It made me weaker because it led me to believe that I couldn't survive without those things. And I spent so long afraid of being alone that I never did anything for myself. I never did anything with myself, which made it all the easier to believe I wasn't capable. ~ Craig Silvey

I'd sneer and tell him he's got the cerebral finesse of an amoeba and delight in his squint of confusion. ~ Craig Silvey

Jasper Jones fell out of this world and nobody noticed ... And they'll notice now because something has been burned. Now they'll look for Jasper Jones. ~ Craig Silvey

All the things that have happened to you, all them years. Where you've been and who you've been with. All the different people I've met. I always seem to get on with them. If I see people I always talk to people. That's just what I do. ~ Craig Taylor

Contradictions are the impossible chasms that create forever separations. God is the forever bridge that creates impossible reunions. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I'm not the same person as the character I do in my songs. She's crazy! The 'Daddy Song' was the first sketch I ever wrote, especially on the guitar and everything - and definitely the most offensive. And absurd. ~ Carly Craig

Drinking coffee is kinda my major hobby ... the great benefit of being an actor is you have all this spare time. My ideal is just hanging out with people - I think I am innately lazy. ~ Craig Parker

With God, what's possible will always be infinitely greater than what we believe to be probable. And we can be thankful that such a reality means that where we see a wall, God wishes to unveil a horizon. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Life is a DNA software system. ~ Craig Venter

there was something ~ Craig Johnson

This is not wilderness for designation or for a park. Not a scenic wilderness and not one good for fishing or the viewing of wildlife. It is wilderness that gets into your nostrils, that runs with your sweat. It is the core of everything living, wilderness like molten iron. ~ Craig Childs

Success only happens when a person is dedicated to a cause greater than oneself. ~ Angela Lynne Craig

My eyes open after my mind. All eyes always do. ~ Craig Stone

I'm from the Midwest. ~ Craig Kilborn

Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them. ~ Daniel Craig

With God it's not about beholding life, but being held ourselves in the act of beholding it. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Wherever he looked, he saw people who demanded to be heard but had nothing to say. ~ Craig A. Falconer

I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies. ~ Daniel Craig

People say I'll be drafted in the first round, maybe even higher. ~ Craig Heyward

You must long for God more than normal. You must be willing to live to give, not live to gain. ~ Craig Groeschel

If the baser instinct of rampant self-preservation adamantly refuses to surrender itself to the infinitely greater call of self-sacrifice, in attempting to save our lives we will have in reality completely destroyed our lives. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I don't know much about the Supreme Court. If it's anything like the Supreme Taco, it's like a regular court, but with extra sour cream. ~ Craig Ferguson

You're playing solitaire with no aces in the deck, and you can't figure out why you never win. ~ Craig Schaefer

When you reach out to God humbly, you'll find that He's already reaching out to you. ~ Craig Groeschel

Normal people live distracted, rarely fully present. Weird people silence the distractions and remain fully in the moment. ~ Craig Groeschel

Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it's disgusting, or whatever, it's what it is. ~ Daniel Craig

Are the returns on my journey equal to the length of the road behind me? And if not, have I realized the pressing need to surrender to God the road in front of me? ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The mere possibility provides no warrant for denying what I clearly grasp. ~ William Lane Craig

I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.' ~ Daniel Craig

To sacrifice myself is the most radical way that I can exchange what I've become for what I was supposed to become. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

But nobody lives in a universal thing called culture. They live only in specific cultures, each of which differ from one another. Plays written and produced in Germany are three times as likely to have tragic or unhappy endings than plays written and produced in the United States. Half of all people in India and Pakistan say they would marry without love, but only 2 percent of people in Japan would do so. Nearly a quarter of Americans say they are often afraid of saying the wrong things in social situations, whereas 65 percent of all Japanese say they are often afraid. In their book Drunken Comportment, Craig MacAndrew and Robert B. Edgerton found that in some cultures drunken men get into fights, but in some cultures they almost never do. In some cultures drunken men grow more amorous, but in some cultures they do not. ~ David Brooks

Training records become a barometer of accomplishment and a roadmap for further progress. ~ Craig Cecil

It is not the absence of hope. Rather, it is the absence of our faith in hope. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is my wish and most cherished hope that God would be pleased with my legacy, that lives would be changed by it, and that the world would be immeasurably better because I was privileged to leave a legacy at all. And if perchance I am fortunate enough to have these things come to pass, I can then rest in the fact that I have lived well. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Throw the computer away and don't look on the internet. That's the best thing to do. ~ Daniel Craig

It is possible that pain is the thing that tells me that I'm living when I see it as the thing that tells me that I'm dying? ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Osama bin Laden's death has been in the news all day. Leftish
stations are going, 'President Obama saves the world.' Stations on the right are
going, 'Obama kills fellow Muslim.' ~ Craig Ferguson

Equestrian and sailing are sports for people growing up on the mean streets of Connecticut. ~ Craig Ferguson

The virus in the movie 'Contagion' is based on the bird flu which came out of nowhere back in 2008. Everyone thought it was going to change the way we live and it just faded away. Wait a minute, I'm talking about President Obama. ~ Craig Ferguson

I never really had a strong accent. ~ Daniel Craig

Follow through with basic values, and remember to provide good customer service. ~ Craig Newmark

In the thoughtlessness of my incessant hurry, I have made God an 'addendum in' my life verses the 'agenda of' my life. And what I need to hurry up and realize is that with these priorities positioned as such, what I am hurrying to is my own demise. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I have the modest goals of replacing the whole petrochemical industry. ~ Craig Venter

The 'Being Human' people were really cool and let me improvise. They had such a good working atmosphere. It was a cool set-up and a really good environment to be in. ~ Craig Roberts

If God has the answer to every question, maybe my appreciation for God should be shaped more by the number of questions and less by the wisdom of the answers. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

He was making music - Howells, Finzi, Holst - so you could see the sounds in the serried air.
Serried. Then just as suddenly empty when his sound-proof right hand closed off the notes. ~ Craig Raine

Most of my Muslim friends are politically liberal in a lot of senses. They are far more open-minded than the Christian circles I grew up in, which are, you know, actually scarier. That said, too, I still identify with the teachings of Jesus. I don't think they resemble or relate to modern-day Christianity. ~ Craig Thompson

Question the answers, I repeated every class. Reevaluate your conclusions when the evidence changes. ~ Craig M. Mullaney

Smile sometimes: it won't add years to your life, but it will add life to your years. ~ Craig Stone

There is no sin too great for God's grace. There is no habit too big for his healing. There is no label too strong for his love. ~ Craig Groeschel

You know, sometimes you look at me with longing ...
... even though I'm here with you. ~ Craig Thompson