Barry Gifford Quotes

“We fool ourselves into thinking we’re strong then complain the rest of our lives crippled by the consequences.”

“Romeo gritted his teeth and let the wind hit his face. Believe it, he told himself. Life with this woman will be without apologies.”

“This is something an ordinary man can never know. You will enter the House of Dreams, Juanito, where you will live forever.

Your mother and father and sisters and brothers, your grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, all you will greet in their dreams. And only you, among them, will be safe.”

“The only words worth repeating are from the Old Testament or Oscar Wilde.”

“The world is really wild at heart and weird on top.”