Alexander Maksik Quotes & Sayings

I would fight for him and against anyone who wouldn't. It wasn't complicated. In the beginning love never is. — Alexander Maksik

And it was the speed that provided some solace. For if it moved like that, it would always move like that, and somehow, because of it, things change, somehow things end. — Alexander Maksik

Find some people you give a shit about. Who care about you. Who are smarter than you are. Find a woman. Who laughs at you. Who'll kick your ass out of the house. You find that woman and she's the same woman who'll throw herself in front of a truck for you? Well, then you're somewhere. — Alexander Maksik

People used to tell me when I was young that I didn't know what I was capable of, that my intelligence was limitless, that I could do anything. Which I've come to realize is true in both directions. I never imagined that I was capable of this life. It would have seemed impossible to me when I was younger, but God do we surprise ourselves. They never tell you that what we surprise ourselves with may be disappointment. — Alexander Maksik

As I walked home, there was the familiar crush of isolation, that bodily loneliness that swept through me every winter. It was as if I'd been injected with something cold and vicious. I could feel it spreading through me, falling heavy in the center of my chest, pooling there. It was bitter and it was devastating and it frightened me. — Alexander Maksik

Cowards spend their lives alone. Either with people who can't hurt them, or with no one at all. — Alexander Maksik

The moon was a fang in the lightning sky. — Alexander Maksik

Anyone you can fool isn't worth loving. — Alexander Maksik

This was the advantage of desire. Desire focused the mind. It eliminated extraneous thought. The greater the desire, the less the burden of the mind. She would like to live her life this way. Perhaps it was how to survive intact. Live to satisfy her desires. Desire only what she could have. — Alexander Maksik

Everything can change, but only with abandon. — Alexander Maksik

We the erratic keep terrible time. — Alexander Maksik

Time passes, her mother said, peeling carrots. No matter what you do. No matter what happens, she said, crushing garlic, hammering the side of her favorite knife with her fist. Beauty or horror, my heart. Turning on the stove. Beauty or horror, it passes. — Alexander Maksik

The thing is you have to fight the whole time. You can't stop. Otherwise you just end up somewhere, bobbing in the middle of a life you never wanted. — Alexander Maksik

It is the most fundamental thing I know about being alive: Everything that lasts is invention followed by tenacious faith. — Alexander Maksik

Now I sat at the small table in my apartment. There was the hum of the room. The sound of the blade cutting through the chicken. The sound of wine in my throat. Returning the glass to the table. I tried to be perfectly still. I held my breath and imagined myself alone in Paris. In a room in a city holding my breath. — Alexander Maksik

But one day the "why" arises and everything begins in that weariness tinged with amazement. — Alexander Maksik

But all the wanting in the world, her mother reminded her, will leave you with exactly what you have. — Alexander Maksik