M O Walsh Quotes & Sayings

And when I tell you that I love you I want, so badly, for you to understand what I mean. — M O Walsh

In my experience, nothing ever turned out as planned. — M O Walsh

You're going to have a hard time in life if you let every little mistake bother you, he said. Life is good, son. Enjoy it. — M O Walsh

There would be love and loss and regret and injustice and the inside knowledge that the way that life fleets can just crush you. So — M O Walsh

There was no putting back what had been taken...Because, more than anything, what these people made clear was that the tragedy my mother was suffering through was unattainable and unknowable to me, no matter my close proximity. It was something not even the visitors could fathom, they told me.......and ultimately, this sense of futility made me fell more separate from my mother than close to her.
So, I thought, what chance did I have to fix her?
.....My Sunshine Away — M O Walsh

All I knew was that my father, when given the opportunity to be with me, to set me straight in life, had chosen to sacrifice nothing. He had altered no plans, nor did he consider the wild impropriety of this situation from my point of view. Rather, when told by my mother that I was in trouble, that I needed his help, he chose to simply endure me for an evening. — M O Walsh

Now go into the world and tell this story. — M O Walsh

Parents have that special skill of making the truth, no matter how benign, an embarrassing thing. We all know this. — M O Walsh

So it enables the voice of Robert Stack or someone else like him to do for us what it needs to, which is remind us that every moment of our lives is plugged in. Every moment is crucial. And if we recognize this and embrace it, we will one day be able to look back and understand and feel and regret and reminisce and, if we are lucky, cherish. — M O Walsh

But for every adult person you look up to in life there is trailing behind them an invisible chain gang of ghosts, all of which, as a child, you are generously spared from meeting. I know now, however, that these ghosts exist, and that other adults can see them. The lost loves, the hurt friends, the dead: they follow their owner forever. Perhaps this is why we feel so crowded around those people who we know have had hard times. Perhaps this is why we find so little to say. We suffer an odd brand of stage fright, I think, before all those dreadful eyes. — M O Walsh

But still, it broke my heart, like life did. — M O Walsh

I still had the tug of a dreamer inside me. — M O Walsh

Life is complicated. It's a form of joy to have no other choice. — M O Walsh

She is the innocent stuff in the background of time. — M O Walsh