109 quotes found
“The world bein so small aint always a good thing for those of us who aint searchin for new and different stuff.”
“One of the worst things Ive learned about getting older is that there seems to be more change that you dont like than there was when you were younger and you cant do nothin about it.”
“If the forest has a day of fire and the heat of the flames does not consume a special tree, it will still be changed; charred, but still standing.”
“Our bird of hope was being denied the altitude it sought, just free enough to fly dangerously close to the reality of the treetops.”
“Everybody dies. Its no risk to lose your life. You knew it was lost from the beginning.”
“Being tough today might cause you to be weak in the future.”
“The gear teeth of his mind, the cogs of the brains machinery that propelled his thoughts, were grinding to a halt, too long forced to fight against the friction of agony without the aid of hope, th...”
“You can be spiritual all by yourself. Everybody has a soul. But to be religious, it seems like you need other people, and then sometimes it becomes more about the people than the soul.”
“Porches could be cleaned with a broom in a few minutes, but the soul could not be swept. It had to be shaken. And shaking the loess from a soul took a lifetime and more strength than most people had.”
“Sometimes, you need to spit stuff out in words to get it better arranged in your head. I figure if you never talk about it, it just picks its own spot and lays there and festers.”
“It remains for you to save one before saving others, to lead one before leading others.”
“Sometimes when the three of us were together on our own, we would have a good time. I was pretty young, but sometimes we would go off in the woods and build forts and fight Indians and I think thin...”
“I wonder if God hears prayers if the only time you make them is when youre in trouble.”
“Books required no interchanges of thoughts and feelings, no trading of expectations, no traffic of words, no menace of real loss. Reading books required far less energy than reading people; the pag...”
“Reading had always been, through bad, boring, or better times, his best connection to humans.”
“The bones of the oak tree that had stood by the spring branch during my youth were scattered about the ground, pieces of the skeleton of a majestic life that had passed while I was off growing up a...”
“Memories with laughter are the best ones to keep.”
“If all you do is think about what you need, youre no better than an animal in the woods, and no smarter either. To be human, youve got to want. It makes you smarter and stronger.”
“We, the beggar class, have little to lose and our expectations are, at best, modest, and when we suffer, it seems we suffer to the depths, for there is nothing in our lives nor in our souls to buoy...”
“I am not wise enough to know if there is ever purpose in tragedy, if there is ever virtue in resisting it. If it cannot be overcome, then grief has beaten you, and you are right to say so.”
