You know what I was thinking about on my way home? How different my life would be if youโd made that gash a little deeper. Or how different yours would be if Iโd vaulted myself off a roof nine years ago. Do you ever think about things like that? Like, if either you or I wouldnโt have made it, where would the other one be right now? It was something I thought about all the time: how death changes every remaining moment for those still living.
Tiffanie DeBartoloIn his eyes I saw all the other possibilities. The dream-world possibilities. The fairytale possibilities. The seemingly impossible possibilities.
Tiffanie DeBartoloI'd never seen that look on another face before, had never identified it in another person. I'd only met with it in fiction. But everyone falls in love with Holden Caulfield when they're sixteen. They read Catcher in the Rye and don't feel so alone.
Tiffanie DeBartoloTalent? That's not talent. Talent is Liza Minnelli tap dancing and singing at the same time. What I just saw was devastation. Dying man on the cross. Salvation in B minor.
Tiffanie DeBartoloThere's a big difference between being alone and being lonely. And I'm guessing that once you've discovered this distinction you can't go back to solitary confinement without serious emotional repercussions.
Tiffanie DeBartoloWeโre all searching for something to fill up what I like to call that big, God-shaped hole in our souls. Some people use alcohol, or sex, or their children, or food, or money, or music, or heroin. A lot of people even use the concept of God itself. I could go on and on. I used to know a girl who used shoes. She had over two-hundred pairs. But itโs all the same thing, really. People, for some stupid reason, think they can escape their sorrows.
Tiffanie DeBartolo