The Leftovers Quotes

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I’ve matured. I have a much higher tolerance for boredom.

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These days he was like a zombie, all grim business, just another jerk with an erection.

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Things change all the time - abruptly, unpredictably, and often for no good reason. But knowing that didn't do you that much good, apparently.

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She told her therapist it reminded her of coming home the summer after her freshman year at Rutgers, stepping back into the warm bath of family and friends, loving it for a week or two, and then feeling trapped, dying to return to school, missing her...

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It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.

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It’s a matter of dignity,” the Chief explained. “At a certain point, that’s all you have left.

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That’s why we get involved with other people, right? Not just for their bodies, but for everything else, too – their dreams and their scars and their stories.

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Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.

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He knew for a fact that it was possible to fall and just keep falling.

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They both seemed to understand that describing it was beyond their powers, the gratitude that spreads through your body when a burden gets lifted, and the sense of homecoming that follows, when you suddenly remember what it feels like to be yourself.

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To this day, she’s still sad. Because there’s not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it. I’m just saying that I took the pain that was inside of her at that moment and made it my own. And ...

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I’m only human, she told herself. There’s not enough room in my heart for everyone.

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Nora had been training herself not to think too much about her kids. Not because she wanted to forget them - not at all - but because she wanted to remember them more accurately. For the same reason, she tried not to look too often at old photographs...

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Next time she’d have to ask him to keep the light on while he did it, so she could watch his face. That was the best part of the whole thing as far as she was concerned, the way a guy’s face contorted so violently and then relaxed, as if some ter...

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Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.

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Back then, when everybody thought the world would last forever, nobody had time for anything.

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