Jonathan Evison Quotes

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People really do change. Don't let anyone tell you differently. That the future does not conform to the past is not the exception, but the rule.

Jonathan Evison

It's not easy getting old, you know. Things become a lot less clear.

Jonathan Evison

We are born haunted, he said, his voice weak, but still clear. Haunted by our fathers and mothers and daughters, and by people we don't remember. We are haunted by otherness, by the path not taken, by the life unlived. We are haunted by the changing winds and the ebbing tides of history. And even as our own flame burns brightest, we are haunted by the embers of the first dying fire. But mostly, said Lord Jim, we are haunted by ourselves.

Jonathan Evison

Can we really be whoever we want to be, now that we've collected all that we are?

Jonathan Evison

My neediness is not a hole to be filled but something beneath the skin scratching to get out.

Jonathan Evison

Jonathan Evison

Jonathan Evison

Born: 1968 (age 58)

Bio: Jonathan Evison, is an American writer best known for his novels All About Lulu, West of Here, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving and This is Your Life Harriet Chance!.

Known for:

The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving (2012)
This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! (2015)
West of Here (2004)
All About Lulu (2008)

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