Merrit Malloy Quotes & Sayings

When I die
Give what's left of me away
To children
And old men that wait to die.

And if you need to cry,
Cry for your brother
Walking the street beside you
And when you need me,
Put your arms
Around anyone
And give to them
What you need to give to me.

I want to leave you something,
Something better
Than words
Or sounds.

Look for me
In the people I've known
Or loved,
And if you cannot give me away,
At least let me live in your eyes
And not on your mind.

You can love me most
By letting
Hands touch hands
By letting
Bodies touch bodies
And by letting go
Of children
That need to be free.

Love doesn't die,
People do.
So, when all that's left of me
Is love,
Give me away — Merrit Malloy

It's amazing how many people will care about you
if only you would care about them, and
It's even more remarkable
how many people will care about you anyway — Merrit Malloy

What a gigantic step it is not to move. — Merrit Malloy

There are no illegitimate babies. — Merrit Malloy

Don't ever tell a story like it wasn't about you. — Merrit Malloy

The Thief who Couldn't Get Away
I knew a man who didn't come to see his children for years ...
how inept a thief he was to rob from himself like that
... Ironically, his punishment for this
was that his children loved him anyway ... and
it broke his heart — Merrit Malloy

She thought men were saviors ...
... And she looked for more in them than what they were ...
Only to rescue herself from those she wished would rescue her ...
And isn't that the most tragic lie ...
The lie where we tell what we wished were true and believe it ... ?
She had an artificial memory, a prosthesis to a past that never was ...
She was like a party that no one ever went to ...
Like a cure ... without a disease ...
And isn't that the greatest fear of all ... to be ready with the answers
to questions that no one asks anymore? — Merrit Malloy

The truth isn't what we say, it's how we feel when we say it. — Merrit Malloy

I move impatiently
towards a lover
I haven't met — Merrit Malloy

Compromise is simply changing the question to fit the answer. — Merrit Malloy

Love is proud of itself. It leaks out of us even with the tightest security. — Merrit Malloy

There are some people
who would rather be right than happy,
as though making a point
was more fun than having a good time
These are the people
who will risk their lives to get the last laugh
even when it isn't funny — Merrit Malloy

We look for God as though he were not already here. — Merrit Malloy

Remembering is the opposite of being here now; it's being there now. — Merrit Malloy

Whatever it means,
it matters,
and most of it is true
I loved every one of them
and all of them ... were you — Merrit Malloy

There is a great fear that plagues only romantics and children ... it is that they might be alright alone. — Merrit Malloy

We grow to deserve what we need to believe ...
Since I've known you
I've been careful not to pray out loud
Wishes have a way of coming true when you least expect ... — Merrit Malloy

One of the first things we have to let go of is not being able to let go of anybody. — Merrit Malloy

And I choose to be alone
Rather than wrapped in arms I could never need. — Merrit Malloy

Letting people be okay without us is how we get to be okay without them. — Merrit Malloy

What we might consider is how we are good rather than how good we are. — Merrit Malloy

That One Man (from The People Who Didn't Say Goodbye)
There is always that one man
who you can't avoid
that one face that becomes the only
representative of
Heaven. — Merrit Malloy

Everything we say about other people is really about ourselves. — Merrit Malloy

The Long Way Home
Why is it when people feel they are losing each other they always leave each other?
Why do people walk away from their house when all they have to do to get home is turn around? — Merrit Malloy

If you are with someone you love
Tell them. — Merrit Malloy

Relationships that do not end peacefully, do not end at all. — Merrit Malloy

Whatever we say
We're always telling each other exactly what we want them to know ...
We are always telling each other
The truth
Even when
We're lying — Merrit Malloy

What we are is our parents' children; what we become is our children's parents. — Merrit Malloy

Why is it that we always remember that people forget; but we always forget that they remember?I used to remember ... but I forgot! — Merrit Malloy