Top 90 Tiffanie DeBartolo Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “It’s never the truth that changes.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

52. “Oh my God, that would be just like An Officer and a Gentleman,” Kat cried. “Pick her up, Grace! Do it!”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

53. “It was a metaphysical perception that an end could never come to a person who was more alive than anyone I’d ever known.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

54. “He was waiting for something from me. Acknowledgement. Validation. Commiseration, perhaps. I couldn’t even look at him because I was afraid of feeling any more than I already did.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

55. “I didn’t write that song to try and win you over, or to steal you away from him. I wrote it because I knew I never could.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

56. “We hovered above the moment like two rain clouds.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

57. “I have dinner with you at least three times a week. You think now that you’ve licked ice cream from my belly button that’s going to stop?”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

58. “Has the industry done to music what McDonald’s has done to eating?”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

59. “The housekeeper had been there that afternoon. I could always tell because the sheets on the bed would be tucked in so tight, trying to get them out was like wrestling an alligator.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

60. “Thank heaven for the wisdom of the prophets of rock ‘n’ roll.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

61. “Sometimes I would open my eyes when we were kissing, I would watch him and I could see it. I could actually see LOVE – not words, not an emotion, not an abstract concept or a subjective state of mind, but a living, breathing thing.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

62. “I’d never seen a grown man cry like that before, so unself-consciously, so unashamedly. I didn’t know if he was crying for what he’d lost, or for what he’d never had, but there was a beauty in his tears that moved me more than I could ever explain with words – a beauty in the honesty of his sadness, in the grace of it’s purity. It was holy water raining down from the clouds in his eyes, falling to the sand then being carried back to the source from which it came – his blessed sea.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

63. “The phrase what I want struck me. It contains so much entitlement, so many complications, but encompasses only what a person doesn’t have.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

64. “Jacob was the only person I’d ever met, besides myself, who believed music was a cosmic language that spoke directly to our souls – to ease our pain, and to remind us we weren’t alone.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

65. “The question is one of faith. Faith in my talent. Faith in my decisions. And faith in the idea that the truth, even if it can’t pay my bills, can still set me free.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

66. “He turned and looked up at me with the face of a needy child and the eyes of an ancient shaman.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

67. “It seemed cruelly unfair to me, even then, how fast your life can change before you have an opportunity to rethink your choices. We should get second chances on the big stuff. We should come equipped with erasers attached to the tops of our heads. Like pencils. We should be able to flip over and scribble away mistakes, at least once or twice during the duration of our existence, especially in matters of life and death.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

68. “It was as if all the melancholy I’d ever known, all the nights I sat alone thinking life sucked, had added up to our place in the world- finally a good place- and the spirit of that rightness was meant to echo on until the end of time.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

69. “I remember feeling it even then- the sensation that your heart weighs more than your body- that it might burst out of your chest and splatter all over the wall. I suppose it’s called loneliness.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

70. “Absorbing his words was like taking a drink of hot tea. They burned on the way down, but soothed my insides once they had time to cool off.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

71. “Everyone feels that void. Everyone who has the balls to look inside themselves, anyway. It’s what life’s all about... A search.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

72. “I hoped his last sensation was the euphoria. The peace. The love. I had to believe it was the love.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

73. “I’m not messy. I’m rebelling against folding.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

74. “Lying next to Eliza, I had the feeling I had I’d just found something I didn’t even know I’d lost.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

75. “I’ve got my girl and my guitar, and for me that’s enough.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

76. “I would have remembered the good stuff. Nobody ever remembers the good stuff.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

77. “Kat’s idea of self-improvement is a good bikini wax.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

78. “Tacos are very nutritional. They contain all four food groups.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

79. “That’s the only way I could describe the music. It was the sonic equivalent of flight.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

80. “That’s exactly how he looked the last time I saw him – floating around, entangled in the moon.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

81. “I felt betrayed and deceived, and I feared I’d never get to be a William Eggleston character.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

82. “I just happen to comprehend the low standards of the majority of the music-buying public, and I don’t care how condescending that sounds, it’s true. They always go for the shiny gimmicks. Always.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

83. “Isn’t it funny to think that this magnificent piece of matter is in a state of decay? Really, can you think of any other living thing that looks this glorious as it’s dying?”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

84. “The minute Jacob learned his father’s life had become what, in relation to him it had been all along, an apparition, is when I saw desire begins to fade from his eyes. Jacob searched harder than ever for meaning in his being. His body had been orphaned long before, but this time, Thomas Doorley had taken his soul. Because a soul never truly loses hope until hope has turned to ashes, or has been buried six feet underground.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

85. “I am of the theory that all of our transcendental connections, anything we’re drawn to, be it a person, a song, a painting on a wall – they’re magnetic. The art is the alloy, so to speak. And our souls are equipped with whatever properties are required to attract that alloy. I’m no scientist so I don’t really know what the hell these properties are, but my point is we’re drawn to stuff we’ve already got a connection to. Part of the thing is already inside of us.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

86. “I was just sick, beaten, in a city of millions, of suffering by myself. I was twenty-seven going on sixty-five. I should have received Social Security for my misery.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

87. “To Jacob the act of critiquing art was essentially imprecise. That’s why he didn’t read reviews on anything he liked, be it a book, a movie, or a record. He believed that any work an artist puts forth which contains the truth as he or she sees it is worthy of consideration, and any commentary of the work beyond that is nothing more than pure individual opinion and should not be considered relevant to the work itself.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

88. “I had scars. But my scars also served to instill a kind of reverence in me. Reverence that, during times of weakness, became shrouded in darkness.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

89. “I’d never been on the beach at that hour; it was mystical, deserted. The sky was perfectly clear and the moon was a spotlight illuminated just for us, lighting up the water, turning it into a giant sheet of glass. The tide was calm; it flowed in and out in a slow rhythm, like lovers.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

90. “Everyone might as well say good-bye to them now, these two aren’t coming back.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

91. “It had to happen. It was part of the order of things. It was the way the universe was supposed to work.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

92. “It is impossible to become less of yourself by doing something you really wanna do. You can only become less by not doing it.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

93. “Because while a book, a painting, a song, a piece of pottery, a tree can outlive us, none of those things will exist forever. But love is an energy. It’s infinite.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

94. “Gravity is Earth’s way of keeping our spirits on the ground.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

95. “Happiness as a consequence of choice.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

96. “Everyone is always one decision away from a completely different life.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

97. “Don’t swear off all the fruits just because you ate one bad apple.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo