“What you lost weakened you, could kill you. What you wanted kept you going. What you wanted gave you strength.”
― Peter Behrens, quote from The Law of Dreams
“Sooner or later everyone disguises themselves and where they have been and what they have done.”
― Peter Behrens, quote from The Law of Dreams
“Stories always started this way, suddenly, and set within a strange world. Patience is required, to let the stories unroll. This is how people explan their lives.”
― Peter Behrens, quote from The Law of Dreams
“Is courage just the awareness that gestures, journeys, lives have intrinsic shape, and must, one way or another, be completed?”
― Peter Behrens, quote from The Law of Dreams
“Where do they come from, thoughts?
Like wrens, out of the sky.
They arrive.
Noisy, hungry, perfectly themselves.”
― Peter Behrens, quote from The Law of Dreams
“You throw yourself on the world like turf on a fire.”
― Peter Behrens, quote from The Law of Dreams
Peter Behrens
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“Brian discovers that this first group features two bricklayers, a machinist, a doctor, a gun-store owner, a veterinarian, a plumber, a barber, an auto mechanic, a farmer, a fry cook, and an electrician. The second group—Brian thinks of them as the Dependents—features the sick, the young, and all the white-collar workers with obscure administrative backgrounds. These are the former middle managers and office drones, the paper pushers and corporate executives who once pulled down six-figure incomes running divisions of huge multinationals—now just taking up space, as obsolete as cassette tapes.”
― Robert Kirkman, quote from Rise of the Governor
“Man had created light and cut himself from the Heavens.”
― Dacre Stoker, quote from Dracula the Un-Dead
“There was a man of the cloth—Reverend Shibata of the First Baptist Church—who left urging everyone to forgive and forget. There was a man in a shiny brown suit—fry cook Kanda of Yabu Noodle—who left urging Reverend Shibata to give it a rest.”
― Julie Otsuka, quote from The Buddha in the Attic
“Do you suppose she's a wildflower?”
― Lewis Carroll, quote from The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition
“If Preston Brooks with his attack had brought him near death, was it not his old friend Appleton who had observed, “When good Americans die they go to Paris”?”
― David McCullough, quote from The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
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