Victor Lodato Quotes & Sayings

But not everything in your heart makes it to your mouth. — Victor Lodato

Even those who loved you best were bound to find the flaws if they stared long enough. — Victor Lodato

Learning kindness late in life was a kind of torture. The pain often came from the past, from kindness withheld. The knife was particularly sharp when those who most deserved your kindness were long gone. And unless you wanted to die of sorrow, you had to give this unspent kindness to those you loved less. — Victor Lodato

Birds are the lunatics of the animal world. — Victor Lodato

I want to be awful. I want to do awful things and why not? Dull is dull is dull is my life. Like now, it's night, not yet time for bed but too late to be outside, and the two of them reading reading reading with their eyes moving like the lights inside a copy machine. When I was helping put the dishes in the washer tonight, I broke a plate. I said sorry Ma it slipped. But it didn't slip, that's how I am sometimes, and I want to be worse. — Victor Lodato

Sometimes she worried that her love for Edgar was too strong, a covetous earthly love, a love against God, a love to reclaim lost things. But what love wasn't that? What love wasn't a reward to counter an old wrong? Anyway, it wasn't something she could control. How — Victor Lodato

There is no imagination in the world. A person like me is basically alone. If I want to live in the same world as other people I have to make a special effort. — Victor Lodato

Not everything in your heart makes it to your mouth. A lot of it gets lost on the way. — Victor Lodato

Didn't they realize that love was slow, shy, baffled half the time by pride? The — Victor Lodato

In the car, Edgar felt something like panic. The air itself was turning to cement. He didn't understand that this imprisonment was an illusion, a phantasm of grief. He truly believed that life might be over, that all stories would unfold in the already-lived, the sole place in which his grandmother was not dead.

But as he looked out the window, he saw how the landscape moved by so fast that it blurred. Trees and billboards slapped past his consciousness with the clicking intensity of a roulette wheel. Edgar felt a desire for something else. Perhaps there were other arrangements a person could make with time. — Victor Lodato

Still, when I read the story, I felt like I'd written half of it myself, and the author guy was responsible for the other half. And when the two halves came together it was like the end of amnesia and all the memories came flooding back. The best stories are like that. They're like spaceships. they take you somewhere far away and you think, oh, what a weird place. But then you think, wait, maybe I've been here before. Maybe I was even born here. — Victor Lodato

A person's desires, the things a person found beautiful, were probably best kept to oneself. — Victor Lodato

Isn't language amazing? I can't get over it. Sometimes you can just say things and its like a bomb that blows all your clothes off and suddenly there you are naked. I don't know if its disgusting or beautiful. — Victor Lodato

If I could have one magical power it would be to get inside someone else's head, even just for a second, so that I could know what's important to other people, who they love and who they hate. You might treat certain people differently if you knew what was really in their heart. — Victor Lodato

What a night, I'm telling you. Odious. Odious with cherries on top. — Victor Lodato

A person's heart is a disgusting thing. You almost can't look at it. — Victor Lodato

Religion has a way of making people into idiots is what my father says. — Victor Lodato

Sick people should look sick, like in fairy tales or on television. They shouldn 't be wearing sexy dresses and shaving their legs. How was I supposed to know she was about to disappear? — Victor Lodato

The problem is, at a certain point you can't stop thinking even if you want to. I swear, sometimes you just wish you could go back into the dark like a primitive person. But you cant, that's the problem with evolution. Once you have a little bit of knowledge, more of it just keeps coming at you like birds around a bagel. Sometimes when I learn things, I wish I hadn't learned them. — Victor Lodato

I went to sleep feeling like a terrorist. But I wasn't going to kill people, I was going to bring them back to life. That's a whole different kind of terror. It's the terror of god. — Victor Lodato

There are beautiful things in the world and there are sad things and when they come together they make a star. The light is far away and the strangest part is that the light is inside you. — Victor Lodato

The thing is, I can't love her, not in the real world. Because this would be degrading to me. To love someone who despises you, and she just might. You should see her eyes on me sometimes. Plus she's not even a mother anymore, she's just a planet with a face. Da at least has hands. — Victor Lodato

When the people you love become animals it's awful. You're half afraid to even go near them. — Victor Lodato

Time is funny lately, nothing to do with clocks. — Victor Lodato

When you're head over heels about someone, it's a real painkiller. You almost wonder why doctors don't recommend it more. — Victor Lodato