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Peter Heller quotes: Jasper's weight on my leg an aching absence.

Jasper's weight on my leg an aching absence.

Peter Heller quotes: Life is tenacious if you give it one little bit of encouragement.

Life is tenacious if you give it one little bit of encouragement.

Peter Heller quotes: No words and I knew with certainty that Bangley had killed his old man.

No words and I knew with certainty that Bangley had killed his old man.

Peter Heller quotes: I would be moving in the cold of the settling evening, the few stars in the chasm overhead, the only way I could still myself at all: move.

I would be moving in the cold of the settling evening, the few stars in the chasm overhead, the only way I could still myself at all: move.

Peter Heller quotes: He really your dad? Yes. On my father's side.

He really your dad? Yes. On my father's side.

Peter Heller quotes: So I wonder what it is this need to tell.To animate somehow the deathly stillness of the profoundest beauty. Breathe life in the telling.

So I wonder what it is this need to tell.
To animate somehow the deathly stillness of the profoundest beauty. Breathe life in the telling.

Peter Heller quotes: we are nine years out. The flu killed almost everybody, then the blood disease killed more. The

we are nine years out. The flu killed almost everybody, then the blood disease killed more. The

Peter Heller quotes: I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo.

I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo.

Peter Heller quotes: I went over to the painting and looked closely. It had changed in my absence, something paintings liked to do.

I went over to the painting and looked closely. It had changed in my absence, something paintings liked to do.

Peter Heller quotes: We have traveled.Now you will be the pathI will walk I will walkOver you.

We have traveled.
Now you will be the path
I will walk I will walk
Over you.

Peter Heller quotes: Meager as it is. Nothing to lose as I have. Nothing is something somehow.

Meager as it is. Nothing to lose as I have. Nothing is something somehow.

Peter Heller quotes: He's a cocky SOB. He knew the Nick Adams Stories. Probably a frustrated English major who graduated from college qualified to drive a cab.

He's a cocky SOB. He knew the Nick Adams Stories. Probably a frustrated English major who graduated from college qualified to drive a cab.

Peter Heller quotes: When we are most scared is the time to summon our clearest concentration and move forward, not back.

When we are most scared is the time to summon our clearest concentration and move forward, not back.

Peter Heller quotes: Waiting. Time in its pod. Blown open and scattered.

Waiting. Time in its pod. Blown open and scattered.

Peter Heller quotes: I open it so he has no choice. At the crack of the top and the sound of the fizz he winces like one more Coke down, one less in

I open it so he has no choice. At the crack of the top and the sound of the fizz he winces like one more Coke down, one less in the world.

Peter Heller quotes: The relief it swept his face like pushing off a cloud shadow. I

The relief it swept his face like pushing off a cloud shadow. I

Peter Heller quotes: Funny how you can live a whole life waiting and not know it.

Funny how you can live a whole life waiting and not know it.

Peter Heller quotes: I was not allowed to bury her. She was incinerated with the rest. I

I was not allowed to bury her. She was incinerated with the rest. I

Peter Heller quotes: Seem to float magically above the trenches of commerce,

Seem to float magically above the trenches of commerce,

Peter Heller quotes: She thought that one might not make a dent in the Great Sadness, but one could help make another person whole.

She thought that one might not make a dent in the Great Sadness, but one could help make another person whole.

Peter Heller quotes: Why was I so hung up on anyone being brave? So what if 90 percent of artists, or people for that matter, were meek?

Why was I so hung up on anyone being brave? So what if 90 percent of artists, or people for that matter, were meek?

Peter Heller quotes: How we gentle our losses into paler ghosts.

How we gentle our losses into paler ghosts.

Peter Heller quotes: Grief is an element. It has its own cycle like the carbon cycle, the nitrogen. It never diminishes not ever. It passes in and out of everything.

Grief is an element. It has its own cycle like the carbon cycle, the nitrogen. It never diminishes not ever. It passes in and out of everything.

Peter Heller quotes: All the choices we can't see. Every moment.

All the choices we can't see. Every moment.

Peter Heller quotes: Nothing decided, nothing finished.

Nothing decided, nothing finished.

Peter Heller quotes: I want to be two people at once. One runs away.

I want to be two people at once. One runs away.

Peter Heller quotes: If we all knew what was coming, maybe we wouldn't even stick around for it. Time present and time future.

If we all knew what was coming, maybe we wouldn't even stick around for it. Time present and time future.

Peter Heller quotes: To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting.

To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting.

Peter Heller quotes: The other is how I could have loved Cristine so fiercely, who was such a world champion bitch, who even came after me once with a kitchen knife.

The other is how I could have loved Cristine so fiercely, who was such a world champion bitch, who even came after me once with a kitchen knife.

Peter Heller quotes: Never know how much of a hurry you might be in later.

Never know how much of a hurry you might be in later.

Peter Heller quotes: That this was once the middle of nowhere and now it's not even that.

That this was once the middle of nowhere and now it's not even that.

Peter Heller quotes: Too - about how crazy hard is the journey of getting to where you have never been.

Too - about how crazy hard is the journey of getting to where you have never been.

Peter Heller quotes: I figured in the fuel, the guns, two rifles, the shotgun, the handguns, four grenades. Period. Two quarts of oil. I scratched a nub of pencil

I figured in the fuel, the guns, two rifles, the shotgun, the handguns, four grenades. Period. Two quarts of oil. I scratched a nub of pencil

Peter Heller quotes: I tried with every ounce not to, not to weep as I saw my world, everything in it of any importance, vanishing from my grip. In

I tried with every ounce not to, not to weep as I saw my world, everything in it of any importance, vanishing from my grip. In

Peter Heller quotes: Tapas is a fancy way of saying a morsel of food for a fuckload of money, but I didn't mind, I was feeling flush.

Tapas is a fancy way of saying a morsel of food for a fuckload of money, but I didn't mind, I was feeling flush.

Peter Heller quotes: Is it possible to love by simply not being an ass? I don't think so. But it goes a long way to clearing a space where love can happen.

Is it possible to love by simply not being an ass? I don't think so. But it goes a long way to clearing a space where love can happen.

Peter Heller quotes: If there is nothing else there is this: to be inundated, consumed.

If there is nothing else there is this: to be inundated, consumed.

Peter Heller quotes: He was aggregating memory like a wall against extinction and the little boxes of slides were his bricks.

He was aggregating memory like a wall against extinction and the little boxes of slides were his bricks.

Peter Heller quotes: Pursuing fun is exhausting. Having fun is just fun. Much more relaxing just to do your work, don't you think? I mean if you enjoy it.

Pursuing fun is exhausting. Having fun is just fun. Much more relaxing just to do your work, don't you think? I mean if you enjoy it.

Peter Heller quotes: Pa smiled an inward smile. He always took delight in the pure souls of the earth, wherever they shone.

Pa smiled an inward smile. He always took delight in the pure souls of the earth, wherever they shone.

Peter Heller quotes: At this stage they were killers. I mean this stage in our mutually culpable history. Who

At this stage they were killers. I mean this stage in our mutually culpable history. Who

Peter Heller quotes: Jasper. Little brother. My heart.

Jasper. Little brother. My heart.

Peter Heller quotes: Is upsetting the Order. The chain of. The hunters and hunted. A lack of respect. Something is wrong with him. CAWWREAACHH.

Is upsetting the Order. The chain of. The hunters and hunted. A lack of respect. Something is wrong with him. CAWWREAACHH.

Peter Heller quotes: Once he said: I'm a time bomb. Which he didn't have to tell me.

Once he said: I'm a time bomb. Which he didn't have to tell me.

Peter Heller quotes: Nobody on earth is more righteous than a seventeen year old. (244)

Nobody on earth is more righteous than a seventeen year old. (244)

Peter Heller quotes: Can you fall in love through a rifle scope?

Can you fall in love through a rifle scope?

Peter Heller quotes: You can pull a goat off into the field, but a memory you can only haul into the sun and hope it desiccates. Dries to something crumbled and odorless.

You can pull a goat off into the field, but a memory you can only haul into the sun and hope it desiccates. Dries to something crumbled and odorless.

Peter Heller quotes: Never know how you feel about someone until they die and come back.

Never know how you feel about someone until they die and come back.

Peter Heller quotes: She collapsed. I stepped forward and caught her. I thought of two trees nearly unrooted and leaning against each other.

She collapsed. I stepped forward and caught her. I thought of two trees nearly unrooted and leaning against each other.

Peter Heller quotes: Vindication and horror. Sometimes being right isn't all it's cracked up to be: how

Vindication and horror. Sometimes being right isn't all it's cracked up to be: how

Peter Heller quotes: I mean it felt my heart might just burst. Bursting is different than breaking. Like there is no way to contain how beautiful.

I mean it felt my heart might just burst. Bursting is different than breaking. Like there is no way to contain how beautiful.

Peter Heller quotes: What a fool. In purgatory there is really nothing else to be. I

What a fool. In purgatory there is really nothing else to be. I

Peter Heller quotes: Ve used for years. When the rubber wears out I've got more. On the last

Ve used for years. When the rubber wears out I've got more. On the last

Peter Heller quotes: the End of Everything meant the End maybe for all time, maybe in all the universe, of Golf.

the End of Everything meant the End maybe for all time, maybe in all the universe, of Golf.

Peter Heller quotes: There might not be a measure of happiness left in a life, but there could be beauty and grace and endless love.

There might not be a measure of happiness left in a life, but there could be beauty and grace and endless love.

Peter Heller quotes: Dont pretend to be that small, you are not that great!

Dont pretend to be that small, you are not that great!

Peter Heller quotes: Maybe the most real thing the end. To realize when it's too late.

Maybe the most real thing the end. To realize when it's too late.

Peter Heller quotes: Desert trees that don't grow up but grow gnarled and thick. Stunted and stubborn. Remind me of Bangley. They just refuse to die at any price. Some

Desert trees that don't grow up but grow gnarled and thick. Stunted and stubborn. Remind me of Bangley. They just refuse to die at any price. Some

Peter Heller quotes: Referring to sheep experiencing a plane takeoff - As far as they knew, all this represented the next stage in the normal life cycle of a sheep

Referring to sheep experiencing a plane takeoff - As far as they knew, all this represented the next stage in the normal life cycle of a sheep

Peter Heller quotes: No: Human beings, by orders of magnitude, remained the most vicious animal on the planet.

No: Human beings, by orders of magnitude, remained the most vicious animal on the planet.

Peter Heller quotes: The difference maybe between the living and the dead: the living often want to be numb, the dead never do ...

The difference maybe between the living and the dead: the living often want to be numb, the dead never do ...

Peter Heller quotes: I think there should be tribunals for social cruelty as there are for physical assault. Calculated cuts in the first degree. Snobicide or its reverse.

I think there should be tribunals for social cruelty as there are for physical assault. Calculated cuts in the first degree. Snobicide or its reverse.

Peter Heller quotes: Watch anyone enter their arena of real mastery and you see it, the growing bigger than themselves. Love that.

Watch anyone enter their arena of real mastery and you see it, the growing bigger than themselves. Love that.

Peter Heller quotes: It is okay for people you love to leave. For them to come and go. She taught it to me over and over.

It is okay for people you love to leave. For them to come and go. She taught it to me over and over.

Peter Heller quotes: The pleasure almost split me like a baking stuffed tomato. Like my heart swelled and my skin got thinner and thinner in the heat of it. Of company.

The pleasure almost split me like a baking stuffed tomato. Like my heart swelled and my skin got thinner and thinner in the heat of it. Of company.

Peter Heller quotes: Took the end of the world to make us kings for a day.

Took the end of the world to make us kings for a day.

Peter Heller quotes: Jasper glances sideways with mild canine embarrassment.

Jasper glances sideways with mild canine embarrassment.

Peter Heller quotes: felt my heart might just burst. Bursting is different than breaking. Like there is no way to contain how beautiful. Not

felt my heart might just burst. Bursting is different than breaking. Like there is no way to contain how beautiful. Not

Peter Heller quotes: Anymore the old seasonal benchmarks were mostly nostalgia. We

Anymore the old seasonal benchmarks were mostly nostalgia. We

Peter Heller quotes: He is at home with his solitude as the note reverberating inside a bell.

He is at home with his solitude as the note reverberating inside a bell.

Peter Heller quotes: Most of us are never seen, not clearly, and when we are we likely jump and run.

Most of us are never seen, not clearly, and when we are we likely jump and run.

Peter Heller quotes: What it is about painting, how it can hit people exactly like music, and hit people so differently.

What it is about painting, how it can hit people exactly like music, and hit people so differently.