Top 40 Daniel Wallace Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “In a moment, everything can change and in a moment, you can change everything.”

— Daniel Wallace

2. “They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that’s true. What they don’t tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up.”

— Daniel Wallace

3. “The ending is always a surprise.”

— Daniel Wallace

4. “A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.”

— Daniel Wallace

5. “He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.”

— Daniel Wallace

6. “Dreams are what keep a man going, William, and already your father was dreaming empire. But looking at him on the day he left that town he was born in, you would have seen little more than a young, handsome boy with nothing but the clothes on his back and the holes in his shoes. You might not have actually seen the holes in his shoes, but they were there, William; the holes were there. “That.”

— Daniel Wallace

7. “Remembering a man’s stories makes him immortal.”

— Daniel Wallace

8. “This is what is meant by last words: they are keys to unlock the afterlife. They’re not last words but passwords, and as soon as they’re spoken you can go.”

— Daniel Wallace

9. “In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they’re going to end.”

— Daniel Wallace

10. “Dreams are what keep a man going.”

— Daniel Wallace

11. “I look into his gray-blue dying eyes. We’re staring at each other, showing each other our last looks, the faces we’ll take with us into eternity, and I’m thinking how I wish I knew him better, how I wish we’d had a life together, wishing my father wasn’t such a complete and utter goddamn mystery to me...”

— Daniel Wallace

12. “He thought she hung the moon. He actually believed this from time to time. He believed the moon wouldn’t have been there but that she’d hung it. He believed the stars were wishes, and that one day they would all come true. For her, his daughter. He had told her this when she was little to make her happy, and now that he was old he believed it, because it made him happy and because he was so very old. He.”

— Daniel Wallace

13. “People were so cheap there... they ate beans to save on bubble bath.”

— Daniel Wallace

14. “He believed the stars were wishes, and that one day they would all come true.”

— Daniel Wallace

15. “Beneath one facade there’s another facade and then another, and beneath that the aching dark place, his life, something that neither of us understands. All I can say is, “One more chance. I’ll give you one more chance and then I’m leaving, I’m going, and I don’t know if I’m coming back. I’m not going to be your straight man anymore.” And.”

— Daniel Wallace

16. “The day Edward Bloom was born, it rained.”

— Daniel Wallace

17. “How can the world be seen at such speeds? Where do people need to go so badly they can’t realize what is already here, outside the car window?”

— Daniel Wallace

18. “My father is on the roof. This is how I remember him sometimes. Well-dressed in a dark suit and shiny, slippery shoes, he is looking left, looking right, looking as far as his eyes will travel. Then, looking down, he sees me, and just as he begins to fall he smiles, and winks. All the way down he’s looking at me–smiling, mysterious, mythic, an unknown quantity: my dad.”

— Daniel Wallace

19. “He was a big fish, even then.”

— Daniel Wallace

20. “Still,” he says, “if I shared my doubts with you, about God and love and life and death, that’s all you’d have: a bunch of doubts. But now, see, you’ve got all these great jokes.” “They’re.”

— Daniel Wallace

21. “It is necessary to lie to achieve anything of value. And a skilled liar is nearly impossible to detect.”

— Daniel Wallace

22. “It was said he could charm anyone, just by walking through the room. It was said he was blessed with a special power. But my father was humble, and he said it wasn’t that at all. He just liked people, and people liked him. It was that simple, he said.”

— Daniel Wallace

23. “In Specter, history becomes what never happened. People mess things up, forget and remember all the wrong things. What’s left is fiction.”

— Daniel Wallace

24. “So in a way it was true: as I grew, he shrank. And by this logic one day I would become a giant, and Edward would become nothing, invisible in the world. B.”

— Daniel Wallace

25. “It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true.”

— Daniel Wallace

26. “The car is my father’s magic carpet. Not only does it get him places, but it shows him places.”

— Daniel Wallace

27. “What is it you say now, what peace is there to be made in the last minutes of the last day that will mark the before and after of your life until then, the day that will change everything for both of you, the living and the dead?”

— Daniel Wallace

28. “I think,” I say after a while, waiting for the right words to come, “that if a man could be said to be loved by his son, then I think that man could be considered great.” For this is the only power I have, to bestow upon my father the mantle of greatness, a thing he sought in the wider world, but one that, in a surprise turn of events, was here at home all along.”

— Daniel Wallace

29. “If it seems like he’s going to die she’ll call for me. This is how we talk. In the land of the dying, sentences go unfinished, you know how they’re going to end. So.”

— Daniel Wallace

30. “Being alone was lonely, but there was an even greater loneliness sometimes when he was surrounded by a lot of other people who were constantly making demands of him. He needed a break. C.”

— Daniel Wallace

31. “But he liked to leave me laughing. This is how he wanted to remember me, and how he wanted to be remembered. Of all his great powers, this was perhaps his most extraordinary: at any time, at the drop of a hat, he could really break me up. T.”

— Daniel Wallace

32. “He was just changing, transforming himself into something new and different to carry his life forward in. All.”

— Daniel Wallace

33. “My father gave me early indications that he would live forever. One.”

— Daniel Wallace

34. “Then there was a woman, in her mid-fifties about, who in almost every respect was perfectly normal. But this was the way with these people: in so many respects they were normal, there was just that one thing, that one terrible thing.”

— Daniel Wallace

35. “He had become simply Edward Bloom: Man. I’d caught him at a bad time in his life. And this was no fault of his own. It was simply that the world no longer held the magic that allowed him to live grandly within it.”

— Daniel Wallace

36. “Where do people need to go so badly they can’t realise what is already here, outside the car window.”

— Daniel Wallace

37. “All of a sudden my arms were full of the most fantastic life, frenetic, impossible to hold on to even if I’d wanted to, and I wanted to. But then all I was holding was the blanket, because my father had jumped into the river. And that’s when I discovered my father hadn’t been dying after all. He was changing, transforming himself into something new and different to carry his life forward.”

— Daniel Wallace

38. “You lie to her, you lie to me, you lie to yourself. Blind girl blind you.”

— Daniel Wallace

39. “Dying, he has that look dying people get in their eyes sometimes, happy and sad, tired and spiritually blessed, all at the same time.”

— Daniel Wallace

40. “To get better now would take more than a miracle; it would take a written excuse from Zeus himself, signed in triplicate and sent to every other deity who might lay claim to my father’s withered body and soul.”

— Daniel Wallace

41. “This wasn’t life, of course. This was life support. This was what the medical world had fashioned to take the place of Purgatory.”

— Daniel Wallace

42. “The rest of his hair was dark and full and healthy, and his part was one long straight line of pinkish scalp, a country road across his head.”

— Daniel Wallace

43. “You are a good dad,” I say. “Thanks,” he says, and his eyelids flutter a bit, as if he’s heard what he’s come to hear. This is what is meant by last words: they are keys to unlock the afterlife. They’re not last words but passwords, and as soon as they’re spoken you can go. “So.”

— Daniel Wallace

44. “He stayed up with the eye all night, staring into its shiny blueness, seeing himself within it, until the sun, rising above the tree line the next morning, seemed to him to be the shining eye of some forgotten god. T.”

— Daniel Wallace

45. “Lives have a way of getting on with themselves. But in the short run it will be hard.”

— Daniel Wallace

46. “To get in cars and drive down roads all over the country, all over the world, to drive just as slowly as the law will allow – although the law, especially as it pertains to speed limits, is not something Edward Bloom respects: twenty in town is too fast for him; the highways are madness. How can the world be seen at such speeds? Where do people need to go so badly they can’t realize what is already here, outside the car window?”

— Daniel Wallace

47. “Because the Empire controls the media, we can turn any news to the Emperor’s advantage.”

— Daniel Wallace