“There comes a day in every man’s life when he stops looking forward and starts looking back.”
―
Robert Dugoni,
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
“There comes a day in every man's life when he stops looking forward and starts looking back.Because of my father's circumstances, I had a sad commentary on life, but I now understood that he was offering me his own gift, one that only time can provide. He was offering me the gift of perspective. My father was telling me that while we tend to remember the dramatic incidents that change history---Armstrong's walk on the moon, Nixon's resignation, and the Loma Prieta earthquake---we live for the quiet, intimate moments that mark not our calendars, but our hearts: The day we marry. The days our children are born. Their first step. Their first word. Their first day of school. And when our children grow, we remember those moments with a touch of melancholy: the day they get their driver's license, the day we drive them to college, the day they marry, and the day they have their children. And the cycle begins anew.We realize it is in those quiet moments that each of us has the ability to make our lives extraordinary.” ― Robert Dugoni, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
“we live for the quiet, intimate moments that mark not our calendars but our hearts:” ― Robert Dugoni, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
“Our skin, our hair, and our eyes are simply the shell that surrounds our soul, and our soul is who we are. What counts is on the inside.” ― Robert Dugoni, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
“Long. Not interesting. Coffee?” “No thanks. I’m trying to cut back.” “I thought coffee was a prerequisite for being a cop.” “That’s donuts. What do lawyers eat?” “Each other.” ― Robert Dugoni, My Sister's Grave
“Sometimes our questions are better left unanswered.” ― Robert Dugoni, My Sister's Grave
“But to my mother—I suspect to all mothers—their little boys will always be their little boys, no matter how old those boys become.” ― Robert Dugoni, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
“Life is about heart. Yours is as big as any kid’s I’ve ever coached. Don’t you ever forget that.” ― Robert Dugoni, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
“Sleep was like sex. The less you had, the more you craved it,” ― Robert Dugoni, My Sister's Grave
“We realize it is in those quiet moments that each of us has the ability to make our lives extraordinary.” ― Robert Dugoni, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
“Dearest father in heaven, bless this child and bless this day of new beginnings. Smile upon this child and surround this child, Lord, with the soft mantle of your love. Teach this child to follow in your footsteps, and to live life in the ways of love, faith, hope, and charity.” ― Robert Dugoni, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
“Time is wicked. It comes and goes like a thief in the night, stealing our youth, our beauty, and our bodies.” ― Robert Dugoni, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
“The first recollection started as a trickle that, as soon as I attempted to block it, found another path to weep through, the way water will always bleed through concrete, no matter how many times you patch it.” ― Robert Dugoni, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
“Life is either a collision of random events, like billiard balls during a break careening off and into one another, or if you are so inclined to believe, our predetermined fate—what my mother took such great comfort in calling God’s will.” ― Robert Dugoni, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
“some pain never fully resolved. You just suppressed it beneath a façade of normalcy.” ― Robert Dugoni, My Sister's Grave
“All I know is, the more I rebuilt, the more I realized that just because things hadn’t worked out as I’d planned didn’t mean things couldn’t work out at all.” ― Robert Dugoni, My Sister's Grave
“When it comes to psychopaths, there is no medication. There is no treatment. There is no cure. There are only prisons.” ― Robert Dugoni, Her Final Breath
“Every minute of every day is a gift, and growing old a privilege, not a right.” ― Robert Dugoni, The World Played Chess
“Discrimination is difficult, because in its worst form, it is not overt. It is subtle.” ― Robert Dugoni, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
“There comes a day in every man's life when he stops looking forward and starts looking back.Because of my father's circumstances, I had a sad commentary on life, but I now understood that he was offering me his own gift, one that only time can provide. He was offering me the gift of perspective. My father was telling me that while we tend to remember the dramatic incidents that change history---Armstrong's walk on the moon, Nixon's resignation, and the Loma Prieta earthquake---we live for the quiet, intimate moments that mark not our calendars, but our hearts: The day we marry. The days our children are born. Their first step. Their first word. Their first day of school. And when our children grow, we remember those moments with a touch of melancholy: the day they get their driver's license, the day we drive them to college, the day they marry, and the day they have their children. And the cycle begins anew.We realize it is in those quiet moments that each of us has the ability to make our lives extraordinary.” ― Robert Dugoni, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
“we live for the quiet, intimate moments that mark not our calendars but our hearts:” ― Robert Dugoni, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
“Our skin, our hair, and our eyes are simply the shell that surrounds our soul, and our soul is who we are. What counts is on the inside.” ― Robert Dugoni, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
“Long. Not interesting. Coffee?” “No thanks. I’m trying to cut back.” “I thought coffee was a prerequisite for being a cop.” “That’s donuts. What do lawyers eat?” “Each other.” ― Robert Dugoni, My Sister's Grave
“Sometimes our questions are better left unanswered.” ― Robert Dugoni, My Sister's Grave
“But to my mother—I suspect to all mothers—their little boys will always be their little boys, no matter how old those boys become.” ― Robert Dugoni, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
“Life is about heart. Yours is as big as any kid’s I’ve ever coached. Don’t you ever forget that.” ― Robert Dugoni, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
“Sleep was like sex. The less you had, the more you craved it,” ― Robert Dugoni, My Sister's Grave
“We realize it is in those quiet moments that each of us has the ability to make our lives extraordinary.” ― Robert Dugoni, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
“Dearest father in heaven, bless this child and bless this day of new beginnings. Smile upon this child and surround this child, Lord, with the soft mantle of your love. Teach this child to follow in your footsteps, and to live life in the ways of love, faith, hope, and charity.” ― Robert Dugoni, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
“Time is wicked. It comes and goes like a thief in the night, stealing our youth, our beauty, and our bodies.” ― Robert Dugoni, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
“The first recollection started as a trickle that, as soon as I attempted to block it, found another path to weep through, the way water will always bleed through concrete, no matter how many times you patch it.” ― Robert Dugoni, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
“Life is either a collision of random events, like billiard balls during a break careening off and into one another, or if you are so inclined to believe, our predetermined fate—what my mother took such great comfort in calling God’s will.” ― Robert Dugoni, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
“some pain never fully resolved. You just suppressed it beneath a façade of normalcy.” ― Robert Dugoni, My Sister's Grave
“All I know is, the more I rebuilt, the more I realized that just because things hadn’t worked out as I’d planned didn’t mean things couldn’t work out at all.” ― Robert Dugoni, My Sister's Grave
“When it comes to psychopaths, there is no medication. There is no treatment. There is no cure. There are only prisons.” ― Robert Dugoni, Her Final Breath
“Every minute of every day is a gift, and growing old a privilege, not a right.” ― Robert Dugoni, The World Played Chess
“Discrimination is difficult, because in its worst form, it is not overt. It is subtle.” ― Robert Dugoni, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
