Attachments Quotes

“She was born to be in the spotlight—rave reviews and curtain calls and cast parties, and men of all ages throwing themselves off bridges for her.”
― Jeff Arch, Attachments

“And they knew it was a lie; nobody gets over the death of a child. Easier to split an atom with a butter knife.”
― Jeff Arch, Attachments

“Nobody won the fight. Nobody wins any fight.”
― Jeff Arch, Attachments

“These were angels, Laura was convinced, sent to speak to her directly. About what it takes to understand someone, as they are—not as they were or might someday be. What it takes to hold two lives together.”
― Jeff Arch, Attachments

“Bottom line though, by nature he just wasn’t big on celebrations—even less on drinking as a means. It didn’t loosen him up, and it didn’t make things more fun the way it seemed to do for everyone else—and nothing was worth the price of feeling like hell the next day.”
― Jeff Arch, Attachments

“You don’t start learning until you start remembering; it’s the things that stay with you that become your guides. Just as the things you forget can become your demons. The hard part, though, is when you want to forget things that won’t stay forgotten.”
― Jeff Arch, Attachments

“you were who you were, and if anybody didn’t like it then fuck ‘em. Right where they breathed.”
― Jeff Arch, Attachments

“Be very sure,” it went, “that what you have to say is more important than silence.”
― Jeff Arch, Attachments

“And no one could deny, it was a different Goody who came back that fall. He was sadder, sapped—the light that was always there, you could only see occasionally now—and never for very long.”
― Jeff Arch, Attachments

“We marry for life, Laura found herself thinking, without knowing at all what those words really mean.”
― Jeff Arch, Attachments

“He’d heard this saying once, about how you’re never really upset about the thing you think you’re upset about, because it’s always something else, hiding behind the thing you thought.”
― Jeff Arch, Attachments

“the liberation that can come from speaking to someone who hears you.”
― Jeff Arch, Attachments

“the liberation that can come from speaking to someone who hears you. Really hears you.”
― Jeff Arch, Attachments

“I mean everybody goes through a lot, don’t they?” she asked. “All you have to do is participate—get up in the morning and put in the time—and things are going to happen.”
― Jeff Arch, Attachments

“There hasn’t been one single minute since the day we met that I haven’t loved you. I have never known the word regret. And if you don’t come out of it in this life,” she kissed him, and touched his brow. “I’ll see you in the next.”
― Jeff Arch, Attachments

“She was what this was about. Her choices. Her decisions. And how, at certain times in life, everything can turn on which choice you make. Everything.”
― Jeff Arch, Attachments

“Because it doesn’t matter where you go—if you’re running from something, it stays right with you.”
― Jeff Arch, Attachments

“The hard part, though, is when you want to forget things that won’t stay forgotten.”
― Jeff Arch, Attachments

“Laura wished, all too often, that she could have died instead. Sometimes she wasn’t so sure she hadn’t. For now—for herself, for everyone—the best she could do, was pretend to be alive. And maybe, one day, she would be again.”
― Jeff Arch, Attachments

“And yet, when he’d needed it—when it was time to bury his daughter, and he’d relied on alcohol’s promise to numb him, the stuff failed completely.”
― Jeff Arch, Attachments

“So, really. Fuck celebrations too, sometimes. What’s the point if it only makes you feel worse?”
― Jeff Arch, Attachments

“The sharpest sword in all of creation is useless, if there’s nothing to swing at but air.”
― Jeff Arch, Attachments

“He looked around the room: the light from outside was laying a big pattern across Goody’s bed and hitting this little rug he had, the kind you use to step out of the shower. The floor itself was made out of those big squares of thinnest-possible linoleum, many of them chipped and broken at the corners; all kinds of hair and shit got stuck down there and ground in over time. A paper clip, a trapezoid shard of an old broken light bulb, a flattened-out piece of gum from the Second World War. Pick made a vow never to go barefoot in this room.”
― Jeff Arch, Attachments

“Or maybe they were spy stations, saying things in code—every fourth Hallelujah could mean the coup d’etat is one step closer; every Amen another reformer in shackles, being led down urinated hallways in the night.”
― Jeff Arch, Attachments

“Nobody won the fight. Nobody wins any fight.”

He envied the ones who stayed in their hometowns, and built their lives there, and were happy with that. He wondered what it would be like to feel at home in the town you came from.To have it be a part of you that you would actually want to keep.”
― Jeff Arch, Attachments

“Like the paint cans in the basement, the file cabinets in the garage, the rusted push-mower in the shed off the porch— Goody lived in the corners, the creases, the tucked-away parts of their house and their lives. They never talked about it, but they knew. To talk about it was to admit it was there.”
― Jeff Arch, Attachments

“You don’t start learning until you start remembering; it’s the things that stay with you that become your guides. Just as the things you forget can become your demons.”
― Jeff Arch, Attachments

“If you couldn’t see the names, Pick thought, you could almost pretend that all of this was here for some other reason— any other reason. Someone dropping down from another planet, for instance. Give them a thousand guesses what’s under those markers, and boxes full of bones would never cross their minds.”
― Jeff Arch, Attachments

“He felt like the place was reeling him in now––slow and sure, like a kite, pulled by a hand that was as strong as it was unseen. Killing the lie that he was ever flying free in the first place.”
― Jeff Arch, Attachments

“Money doesn’t carry a flag.”
― Jeff Arch, Attachments