James Richardson Quotes

“Though now, of all that could have been, there is nothing.”
― James Richardson, By the Numbers

“this is the last house in summer
and now is the double loneliness
of missing a party you don't even want to be at.”
― James Richardson, By the Numbers

“Loving yourself is about as likely as tickling yourself.”
― James Richardson, By the Numbers

“The way things broken off
a little too soon can last forever.”
― James Richardson, By the Numbers

“You look up from an oldish author:
Is he dead?
Such power we have,
not knowing. Let him live.”
― James Richardson, By the Numbers

“We don't have to be anywhere. The party we left
and the one we were headed to are probably over.”
― James Richardson, By the Numbers

“She started reading novels to put herself in the way of secret lives.”
― James Richardson, By the Numbers

“The reader lives faster than life, the writer lives slower.”
― James Richardson, By the Numbers

“My best critic is me, too late.”
― James Richardson, By the Numbers

“I look over my old books, happiest when I find a line it seems I could not have written.”
― James Richardson, By the Numbers

“In infinite space, even the most unlikely events must take place somewhere.”
― James Richardson, By the Numbers

“a little run in the sheer black of the universe”
― James Richardson, By the Numbers

“Hope is a door left unlatched in a high wind
banging and banging itself to pieces.”
― James Richardson, By the Numbers

“It never came down to two roads at all,
or if it did, I took the one less traveled by
for a driveway, or the entrance to a mall,
or it slipped past like a station off the air
while I bent down to fiddle with the dial.”
― James Richardson, By the Numbers

“And as for those who might have been following me,
odds are I lost them long, long ago.
Nothing to do but keep on driving as clearly
as if I hadn't, flashing my change of lane and exit,
in case there's anyone who needs to know.”
― James Richardson, By the Numbers

“and whatever happens to love
that hasn't been used enough, has happened.”
― James Richardson, By the Numbers