Wylie Dufresne Quotes

“I really don't do much on the night of Thanksgiving other than bring the wine and carve the turkey. My contribution comes the day after, in the form of breakfast. I usually just forage through the leftovers for things that will go well with eggs.”

“I've always had fond memories of cooking Thanksgiving.”

“Being a chef isn't the ideal career to intersect with parenting, but I try to be in my kids' lives as much as possible.”

“Andy Dufresne: 'That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you...haven't you ever felt that way about music?'Red: 'I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it though. Didn't make much sense in here.'Andy: 'Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don't forget.' Red: 'Forget?'Andy: 'Forget that...there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside...that they can't get to, that they can't touch. That's yours.'Red: 'What're you talking about?'Andy: 'Hope.”

“Inez and I had been in the same book club for a while. She once told me that literary theory was reading without imagination, and I’ve loved her ever since.”

“A lack of narrative structure, as you know, will cause anxiety.”

“She knows what it's like to love someone who cannot love you back. Someone who needs you, holds you, yes, but someone who will never know that love is the knife in your heart.”

“Love is always a surprise and you never get it right.”

“Every act of loving affirms the goodness of the lover just because he is capable of loving and being loved.”

“I loved her for what I couldn't understand about her. Love searches for the mystery in the beloved, seeks the unknowable.”