Top 40 A.M. Homes Quotes (2024 Update)

A.M. Homes Quote: “I believe in staying open to possibility. What is the point of not believing, closing the door? Just leave it open, see what comes in.”

1. “I believe in staying open to possibility. What is the point of not believing, closing the door? Just leave it open, see what comes in.”

A.M. Homes Quote: “I’m feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.”

2. “I’m feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.”

A.M. Homes Quote: “Was this the big one or was this the small tremor, the warning? Does it get better – does the sensation of being in a dream underwater go away?”

3. “Was this the big one or was this the small tremor, the warning? Does it get better – does the sensation of being in a dream underwater go away?”

A.M. Homes Quote: “If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks.”

4. “If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks.”

A.M. Homes Quote: “I don’t know anything anymore. Is that normal? Is it normal to notice the enormity of everything and just go blank?”

5. “I don’t know anything anymore. Is that normal? Is it normal to notice the enormity of everything and just go blank?”

A.M. Homes Quote: “People should pay more attention. Everyone wants attention, but no one wants to give attention.”

6. “People should pay more attention. Everyone wants attention, but no one wants to give attention.”

A.M. Homes Quote: “Birthday parties make me nervous as hell. They’re one of those things where you’re forced to be happy. And even if you’re totally depressed, you’re got to pretend you’re glad you were born, regardless of the fact that getting older means you’re closer to dying.”

7. “Birthday parties make me nervous as hell. They’re one of those things where you’re forced to be happy. And even if you’re totally depressed, you’re got to pretend you’re glad you were born, regardless of the fact that getting older means you’re closer to dying.”

A.M. Homes Quote: “I’m nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.”

8. “I’m nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.”

A.M. Homes Quote: “I am very interested in loyalty, even if the person to whom one is loyal is flawed, criminal, or otherwise in the wrong.”

9. “I am very interested in loyalty, even if the person to whom one is loyal is flawed, criminal, or otherwise in the wrong.”

A.M. Homes Quote: “She savors each bite: the meringue is perfect crispy brown on top, melts in the mouth; the lemon tart, custardy; the crust breaks away.”

10. “She savors each bite: the meringue is perfect crispy brown on top, melts in the mouth; the lemon tart, custardy; the crust breaks away.”

A.M. Homes Quote: “Sometimes you can do things for others that you can’t do for yourself.”

11. “Sometimes you can do things for others that you can’t do for yourself.”

A.M. Homes Quote: “I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a way be truer than you can be in real life and truer than you can be in non-fiction. There’s an accuracy to fiction that people don’t really talk about – an emotional accuracy.”

12. “I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a way be truer than you can be in real life and truer than you can be in non-fiction. There’s an accuracy to fiction that people don’t really talk about – an emotional accuracy.”

A.M. Homes Quote: “It’s a strange city... filled with things that are not obvious.”

13. “It’s a strange city... filled with things that are not obvious.”

A.M. Homes Quote: “Suffering is normal. Pain is normal, it is part of life... What is its texture, the weight of our suffering? What is its meaning? Begin by touching it, by coming close to it, accepting it: Hello, suffering, I am here with you. I am beside you, one with you, I am you. I am suffering.”

14. “Suffering is normal. Pain is normal, it is part of life... What is its texture, the weight of our suffering? What is its meaning? Begin by touching it, by coming close to it, accepting it: Hello, suffering, I am here with you. I am beside you, one with you, I am you. I am suffering.”

A.M. Homes Quote: “A lot of people get flipped out if you’re quiet. They say stuff like, What are you thinking? And if they don’t start interrogating you, they start talking, going on and on about stuff that’s totally irrelevant, and the silence gets so big and loud that it’s scary.”

15. “A lot of people get flipped out if you’re quiet. They say stuff like, What are you thinking? And if they don’t start interrogating you, they start talking, going on and on about stuff that’s totally irrelevant, and the silence gets so big and loud that it’s scary.”

A.M. Homes Quote: “A guy rubbed against me,” I say. “But I think he was just trying to get by. He rubbed me, then said sorry. It was the ‘sorry’ that made me uncomfortable. The rub was kind of interesting, but when he apologized I felt like a creep because I actually liked it.”

16. “A guy rubbed against me,” I say. “But I think he was just trying to get by. He rubbed me, then said sorry. It was the ‘sorry’ that made me uncomfortable. The rub was kind of interesting, but when he apologized I felt like a creep because I actually liked it.”

A.M. Homes Quote: “Books tell you more about their owners than the owners do.”

17. “Books tell you more about their owners than the owners do.”

A.M. Homes Quote: “It’s my policy not to review funerals.”

18. “It’s my policy not to review funerals.”

A.M. Homes Quote: “The strange days of summer. There is no here, no there, the days are incredibly still, the light is brightly muted – it’s hard to know if that’s the passing of the season or poor air quality.”

19. “The strange days of summer. There is no here, no there, the days are incredibly still, the light is brightly muted – it’s hard to know if that’s the passing of the season or poor air quality.”

A.M. Homes Quote: “I grew up convinced that every family was better than mine. I grew up watching other families in awe, hardly able to bear the sensations, the nearly pornographic pleasure of witnessing such small intimacies. I would hover on the edge, knowing that however much they include you – invite you to dinner, take you on family trips – you are never official, you are always the “friend,” the first one left behind.”

20. “I grew up convinced that every family was better than mine. I grew up watching other families in awe, hardly able to bear the sensations, the nearly pornographic pleasure of witnessing such small intimacies. I would hover on the edge, knowing that however much they include you – invite you to dinner, take you on family trips – you are never official, you are always the “friend,” the first one left behind.”

A.M. Homes Quote: “How can I tell anyone that there has always lived within me a rusty sense of disgust-a dull, brackish water that I suspect is my soul?”

21. “How can I tell anyone that there has always lived within me a rusty sense of disgust-a dull, brackish water that I suspect is my soul?”

A.M. Homes Quote: “They stood there, staring at each other, swelling up the whole room. I remember the sudden strange sensation that these were not my parents, these were not the same people I’d known last week.”

22. “They stood there, staring at each other, swelling up the whole room. I remember the sudden strange sensation that these were not my parents, these were not the same people I’d known last week.”

A.M. Homes Quote: “There’s something excruciating about this part. Strangers, or, even worse, friends, crouch at the children’s knees, touching them, hugging them, stressed faces one after another pressing into theirs, faces like caricatures. There is the awkwardness of people feeling the need to say something when there is nothing to say. Nothing.”

23. “There’s something excruciating about this part. Strangers, or, even worse, friends, crouch at the children’s knees, touching them, hugging them, stressed faces one after another pressing into theirs, faces like caricatures. There is the awkwardness of people feeling the need to say something when there is nothing to say. Nothing.”

A.M. Homes Quote: “He lay there realizing how thoroughly he’d removed himself from the world or obligations, how stupidly independent he’d become: he needed no one, knew no one, was not a part of anyone’s life. He’d so thoroughly removed himself from the world of dependencies and obligations, he wasn’t sure he still existed.”

24. “He lay there realizing how thoroughly he’d removed himself from the world or obligations, how stupidly independent he’d become: he needed no one, knew no one, was not a part of anyone’s life. He’d so thoroughly removed himself from the world of dependencies and obligations, he wasn’t sure he still existed.”

A.M. Homes Quote: “The harder it gets to be safe and secure, to trust, to find love and understanding – the more you feel entitled, allowed, even encouraged, to cheat, to lie, to steal, and then later, even to kill. That you are just beginning to feel it now only means you have been lucky for too long.”

25. “The harder it gets to be safe and secure, to trust, to find love and understanding – the more you feel entitled, allowed, even encouraged, to cheat, to lie, to steal, and then later, even to kill. That you are just beginning to feel it now only means you have been lucky for too long.”

A.M. Homes Quote: “Alice, I hand you her name gently, suggesting that if you hold it, carefully as I do, pressed close to the heart, you might at the end of this understand how confusing the beating of two such similar hearts can be and how one finally had to stop.”

26. “Alice, I hand you her name gently, suggesting that if you hold it, carefully as I do, pressed close to the heart, you might at the end of this understand how confusing the beating of two such similar hearts can be and how one finally had to stop.”

A.M. Homes Quote: “I made myself a Muenster-cheese sandwich, with lettuce, tomato, mustard, and mayo, and went up to my room. Ingredients are important.”

27. “I made myself a Muenster-cheese sandwich, with lettuce, tomato, mustard, and mayo, and went up to my room. Ingredients are important.”

A.M. Homes Quote: “You can’t collect everything,” Pat says, putting the dress in with the giveaways. “Life is not a hobby.”

28. “You can’t collect everything,” Pat says, putting the dress in with the giveaways. “Life is not a hobby.”

A.M. Homes Quote: “Anhil’s coffee was hot, dark, full-flavored, perfect chasing the equally well-turned donut: golden brown, dense without being leaden, not too sweet.”

29. “Anhil’s coffee was hot, dark, full-flavored, perfect chasing the equally well-turned donut: golden brown, dense without being leaden, not too sweet.”

A.M. Homes Quote: “I nodded. It was his checklist. Every time we were together we went through this. He ran down his list of people, events, even actual objects that were in my life.”

30. “I nodded. It was his checklist. Every time we were together we went through this. He ran down his list of people, events, even actual objects that were in my life.”

A.M. Homes Quote: “I once jokingly told someone that every book is like a relationship. They’re four or five years long – that’s not so bad. They’re serious. They demand a lot of attention. But I remember thinking that I wanted to have one with someone who’s not so crazy and peculiar and demanding.”

31. “I once jokingly told someone that every book is like a relationship. They’re four or five years long – that’s not so bad. They’re serious. They demand a lot of attention. But I remember thinking that I wanted to have one with someone who’s not so crazy and peculiar and demanding.”

A.M. Homes Quote: “It annoys the hell out of me when people say, This is the kitchen, and this is the bathroom. What am I, Helen Keller? I mean, it’s pretty obvious when you’re in a kitchen and when you’re not.”

32. “It annoys the hell out of me when people say, This is the kitchen, and this is the bathroom. What am I, Helen Keller? I mean, it’s pretty obvious when you’re in a kitchen and when you’re not.”

A.M. Homes Quote: “I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.”

33. “I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.”

A.M. Homes Quote: “He looked at Richard and the donut with great intensity, as if this were the donut that would fix Richard, as if there were certain donuts that were better for certain ailments, as if a donut could have curative powers.”

34. “He looked at Richard and the donut with great intensity, as if this were the donut that would fix Richard, as if there were certain donuts that were better for certain ailments, as if a donut could have curative powers.”

A.M. Homes Quote: “It is the kind of day that farmers, when there were still farmers, would have dreamed of. The sky is brilliant blue, the plants are newly green, the air as fresh and clean as though it has been washed, tumbled dry, and neatly folded the night before. It is the kind of day you never forget.”

35. “It is the kind of day that farmers, when there were still farmers, would have dreamed of. The sky is brilliant blue, the plants are newly green, the air as fresh and clean as though it has been washed, tumbled dry, and neatly folded the night before. It is the kind of day you never forget.”

A.M. Homes Quote: “Even though I thought I wouldn’t – could never – I do enjoy looking at him. It is like seeing one’s self, like seeing one’s self with a certain sense of remove.”

36. “Even though I thought I wouldn’t – could never – I do enjoy looking at him. It is like seeing one’s self, like seeing one’s self with a certain sense of remove.”

A.M. Homes Quote: “I am an amalgam. I will always be something glued together, something slightly broken. It is not something I might recover from but something I must accept, to live with- with compassion.”

37. “I am an amalgam. I will always be something glued together, something slightly broken. It is not something I might recover from but something I must accept, to live with- with compassion.”

A.M. Homes Quote: “Make the mental physical, and the physical mental, and things will improve.”

38. “Make the mental physical, and the physical mental, and things will improve.”

A.M. Homes Quote: “I don’t want to be one of those women who says horrible things about her husband, but your father had no right to take the hammer. I had that hammer when we were still dating, and he damn well knew it.”

39. “I don’t want to be one of those women who says horrible things about her husband, but your father had no right to take the hammer. I had that hammer when we were still dating, and he damn well knew it.”

A.M. Homes Quote: “There are strangers, people we don’t know, who care about is.”

40. “There are strangers, people we don’t know, who care about is.”

A.M. Homes Quote: “One wants to believe that there are systems in place that protect us; but, in fact, we are all a little more on our own than one might realize.”

41. “One wants to believe that there are systems in place that protect us; but, in fact, we are all a little more on our own than one might realize.”

A.M. Homes Quote: “If I’m hearing you right,” the judge says, “what you’re outlining is a coup of sorts that will sweep across this country largely unnoticed until it is too late – until the American people have been decimated economically, intellectually, and spiritually. It comes together on a decision day that results in the emergence of a new America.” “Yes,” the Big Guy says. “And no one will read it as an inside job. It’s a new American dream.”

42. “If I’m hearing you right,” the judge says, “what you’re outlining is a coup of sorts that will sweep across this country largely unnoticed until it is too late – until the American people have been decimated economically, intellectually, and spiritually. It comes together on a decision day that results in the emergence of a new America.” “Yes,” the Big Guy says. “And no one will read it as an inside job. It’s a new American dream.”

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