Ben Sherwood Quotes

• That's death and life, you see. We all shine on. You just have to release your hearts, alert your senses, and pay attention. A leaf, a star, a song, a laugh. Notice all the little things, because somebody is reaching out to you. Qualcuno ti ama. Somebody loves you.

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  Song, Stars, Love You

  Ben Sherwood (2010). “Charlie St. Cloud: A Novel”, p.268, Bantam

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• There's no such thing as a lost cause.

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  Causes, Lost, Lost Cause

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• There's a reason for everything, you said, and though it's a mystery to me now, I know it won't always be so.

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  Mystery, Reason, Said

  Ben Sherwood (2004). “The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud”, p.169, Bantam

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• On the horizon, he saw the full moon. God dropped it there, he was sure, as a reminder of our small place in the world. A reminder that what is beautiful is fleeting.

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  Beautiful, Moon, Horizon

  Ben Sherwood (2010). “Charlie St. Cloud: A Novel”, p.18, Bantam

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• In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.

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  Mean, Doing Nothing, Action

  Ben Sherwood (2009). “The Survivors Club: The secrets and science that could save your life”, p.14, Penguin UK

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• Most of all, I miss that feeling when you go to sleep at night and when you wake up in the morning. It's that feeling that everything is all rightin the world. You know, that amazing feeling that you're whole, that you've got everything you want, that you aren't missing anything. Sometimes when I wake up, I get it for just a moment. It lasts a few seconds, but then I remember what happened, and how nothing has been the same since

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  Morning, Sleep, Night

  Ben Sherwood (2004). “The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud”, p.110, Bantam

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• And I was even beginning to think home might be with you.

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  Home, Thinking, Might

  Ben Sherwood (2010). “Charlie St. Cloud: A Novel”, p.174, Bantam

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• That is the inescapable math of tragedy and the multiplication of grief. Too many good people die a little when they lose someone they love. One death begets two or twenty or one hundred. It's the same all over the world.

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  Grief, Math, Two

  Ben Sherwood (2010). “Charlie St. Cloud: A Novel”, p.267, Bantam

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• ...like the 75 billion souls who lived before him, each and every one a treasure, he, too, will die.

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  Soul, Treasure, Billions

  Ben Sherwood (2010). “Charlie St. Cloud: A Novel”, p.269, Bantam

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• How many boys like him were out there in the ether, holding on to their big brothers and sisters who were still alive? How many husbands were floating between life and death, clinging to their wives in this world? And how may millions and millions of people were there in the world like Charlie who wouldn't let go of their loved ones when they're gone?

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  Letting Go, Brother, Husband

  Ben Sherwood (2010). “Charlie St. Cloud: A Novel”, p.191, Bantam

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