Joyland Quotes

“Fifty yards ahead of us, a doe had come out of the woods. She stepped delicately over one rusty GS&WM track and onto the railbed, where the weeds and goldenrod were so high they brushed against her sides. She paused there, looking at us calmly, ears cocked forward. What I remember about that moment was the silence. No bird sang, no plane went droning overhead. If my mother had been with us, she'd have had her camera and would have been taking pictures like mad. Thinking of that made me miss her in a way I hadn't in years.”

“In the years since, I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom.”

“The last good time always comes”

“I was tired of just letting things happen to me and then feeling bad about them.”

“God and heaven lasted about four years longer than the Tooth Fairy”

“...there are worse things than losing the girl.”

“She looked beautiful,standing there barefoot in her faded jeans. I wanted to take her in my arms, and lift her, and carry her into some untroubled future.Instead, I left her where she was. That's not the world we live in, she'd said, and how right she was,”

“We're not quite ending where we began, but close enough.Close enough.”

“But sooner or later the last good time would come around. It does for all of us.”