Best 16 quotes of Rich Shapero on MyQuotes

Can one young man change a civilization?

Doubt and despair, ... the sweet nibble of decay.

Every word was a cheat. Every thought and feeling was false. I played the game. Everything I touched, I cheapened.

Forgive us our fantasies. It’s all we have.

Heaven is boundless, and the sea is beneath you.

He was a physical creature, a silver man, suspended in space, skin sheening as Tongue’s singing winds streamed past.

I don’t want the void. I don’t want fantasies. I want some- thing real—not another fragment of truth to puzzle over . . . .

Is this what it's like? he wondered. When you're about to die? One hand stretched back to someone who cares for you, the other reaching for a place you can't see.

I’ve always thought of school as a rehearsal. Not the main event.

Perhaps the sound had always been there—like the high-pitched twinkling when you sink your head in calm water, or the stirring in the gel of your eye when you fix on the sun.

Some things take hold of you. Invade you. Own you. You want to be free of them, but you never will be.

The night sky was clear, but he drew clouds across it, combers that roiled like waves above him.

There’s something beyond all this. We see hints in books and music.

There were ghosts in the wind, whispers from the snow or the invisible meltwater flowing beneath.

You’ll find your way.

Your brain is a forest, And the nerves are trees. When the branches touch, Snaps jumps between the leaves.