“The buzzards wait for it to die, not knowing that it’s already dead. By the number of them, they have been waiting a long time.”
“Waiting and hoping is a hard thing to do when you've already been waiting and hoping for almost as long as you can bear it.”
“I feel like I’ve been waiting,” I said to Billy, looking at Hank. “Waiting for a long time, but I guess I know what you mean. My life began when I met him.”
“In times of grief, you're waiting for something to happen, but the thing you're waiting for has already taken place.”
“So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying,An intolerable waiting,A longing for another place and time,Another condition.”
“If you wait long enough, something will happen - there has never been a time when nothing happened.”