Monley Cronin Quotes

#1. I was an editor for supplemental math, science, and literature programs for the primary grades and became very well versed in elementary curriculum, particularly PreK-2. #Quote by Doreen Cronin

#2. The sadness you feel is not your own. It's his sadness you feel in your heart, Amy, for missing you. #Quote by Justin Cronin

#3. Michael lifted a menu from a stack on the counter and opened it. 'What's meatloaf?' I get the meat part, but a loaf of it? #Quote by Justin Cronin

#4. In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country. #Quote by James Cronin

#5. All of his life he had feared the darkness and what it could bring; no one, not even his father, had told him how beautiful the night sky was, how it made you feel both small and large at the same time, while also a part of something vast and eternal. #Quote by Justin Cronin

#6. A goodness of a religion is best valued by a goodness of it's followers #Quote by A.J. Cronin

#7. I came to Houston for a job, the reason most people move halfway across the country with a first grader and a five-week-old. I came here to teach at Rice. #Quote by Justin Cronin

#8. And isn't silence, in its way, a good sign? That everything is well, that the ship is still steaming safely away from shore? #Quote by Justin Cronin

#9. It was in the waiting that a person experienced too much of himself. Memories, doubts, regrets, anxieties, the whole range of possibilities the future contained
they all swirled together in the mind like a soup. #Quote by Justin Cronin

#10. What were the living dead, Wolgast thought, but a metaphor for the misbegotten march of middle age? #Quote by Justin Cronin

#11. A baby was a fact. It was a being with a mind and a nature, and you could feel about it any way you liked, but a baby wouldn't care. Just by existing, it demanded that you believe in a future: the future it would crawl in, walk in, live in. A baby was a piece of time; it was a promise you made that the world made back to you. #Quote by Justin Cronin

#12. Eustace remembered a day like this one: spring on the cusp of summer, the earth unclenching its fist, thick green leaves, rich with fragrance, fattening the trees. A #Quote by Justin Cronin

#13. What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages. #Quote by Justin Cronin

#14. Lacey, you don't understand." He felt weightless, benumbed. He had nothing to fight with, not even a blade. "We're totally unarmed. I've seen what he can do." "There are weapons more powerful than guns and knives," the woman replied. Her face held no fear, only a sense of purpose. "It is time for you to see it." "See what?" "What you came to find," said Lacey. "The Passage. #Quote by Justin Cronin

#15. This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world. #Quote by Justin Cronin

#16. Because the game was the world's natural state. Because the game was war, it always was, and when wasn't there a war on, somewhere, to keep a man like Richards in good employ? #Quote by Justin Cronin

#17. I saw my one purpose in that moment, looking into that little girls eyes. I was the one who was meant to save her, that was my one purpose all this time. #Quote by Justin Cronin

#18. As long as we remember a person, they're not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories, they become a part of us. #Quote by Justin Cronin

#19. Above all else... Stay Positive. #Quote by April Cronin

#20. Religions are many, reason is one, we are all brothers. #Quote by A.J. Cronin

#21. ...happiness (is) an inner state, wholly spiritual, independent... of worldly possession. #Quote by A.J. Cronin

#22. Too many what-ifs are just a way to keep yourself up at night, and there's not enough decent sleep to go around. #Quote by Justin Cronin

#23. For the first time in my life, I felt the pain of missing people I had not yet left. #Quote by Justin Cronin

#24. I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse. #Quote by Justin Cronin

#25. The man's name. And the truth was, she didn't mind any of it, not really: not the being pregnant, which was easy right until the end, nor the delivery itself, which was bad but fast, nor, especially, #Quote by Justin Cronin

#26. Like all young people, he has no idea who his parents really are; for eighteen years he has experienced their existence only insofar as it has related to his own needs. Suddenly his mind is full of questions. What do they talk about when he's not around? What secrets do they hold from each other, what aspirations have been left to languish? What private grievances, held in check by the shared project of child rearing, will now, in his absence, lurch into the light? They love him, but do they love each other? Not as parents or even husband and wife but simply as people - as surely they must have loved each other at one time? He hasn't the foggiest; he can no more grasp these matters than he can imagine the world before he was alive. #Quote by Justin Cronin

#27. My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student. #Quote by James Cronin

#28. It's not that I don't believe you," Peter managed. "I'm sorry. It's just that ... it's only a story."
"Perhaps." She shrugged. "And perheps someday someone will say those very words about you, Peter. What do you say to that? #Quote by Justin Cronin

#29. How stark everything became, at the end, all the wishes for one's children distilled by the world's swift cruelty into the desperate hope that death would take them fast. #Quote by Justin Cronin

#30. To know and be known: that was the final desire, the heart of love. #Quote by Justin Cronin

#31. There was something in the pages of these books that had the power to make him feel better about things, a life raft to cling to before the dark currents of memory washed him downstream again, and on brighter days, he could even see himself going on this way for some time. A small but passable life.
And then, of course, the end of the world happened. #Quote by Justin Cronin

#32. I was born, in a crossfire hurricane #Quote by Sean Cronin

#33. It was what you did, Wolgast understood; you started to tell a story about who you were, and soon enough the lies were all you had and you became that person. #Quote by Justin Cronin

#34. The Director of the Laboratory, George Reynolds, was most supportive of my efforts to work independently. There followed for ten years a glorious time for research. #Quote by James Cronin

#35. Zander was always sneaking off to the library to get more books ... Guy would read anything. Said books were more interesting than people. #Quote by Justin Cronin

#36. We are born faithful and afraid, when it should be the opposite; it is life that teaches us how much we stand to lose. #Quote by Justin Cronin

#37. But I did what I thought was right in the moment. In the end, that's all a man has to measure his life, and it's plenty. #Quote by Justin Cronin

#38. Never a good sign, he thought, when the crows showed up. #Quote by Justin Cronin