Christopher Scotton · 466 pages
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“I guess I learned that even though most people are good, they can be talked into doing bad things by one or two jerks...And I guess, people sometimes need someone who can stand up and remind them that they are good people and they know what's right.”
― Christopher Scotton, quote from The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
“I held her and she cried into my shoulder so deeply that I could feel the sorrow from her soul blending completely and profoundly with my own.”
― Christopher Scotton, quote from The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
“Finally the pieces started to make sense and I began to feel a pensive awareness of circumstances other than my own; a knowing that brings with it a kind is stillness that I didn't quite understand but accepted it for its own.”
― Christopher Scotton, quote from The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
“Pops smiled. “Son, the more people I meet, the less good I get at labeling them. That’s a wisdom I hope you acquire.”
― Christopher Scotton, quote from The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
“kind, sad eyes that seemed to carry with them the secret wisdom of the earth.”
― Christopher Scotton, quote from The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
“..fresh friends from completely different worlds faced with the hard shapings of truth and deceit, of right and wrong, and of the equivalent damage when high expectations and low expectations are devastatingly unmet.”
― Christopher Scotton, quote from The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
“For Arthur, words gathered in waterfall thoughts that spilled off the page into the pools of imaginaton collecting in his head.”
― Christopher Scotton, quote from The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
“They [stag's eyes] were moist and pink, which gave then a strangely intelligent mien--kind, sad eyes that seemed to carry with them the secret wisdom of the earth.”
― Christopher Scotton, quote from The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
“They ran past him without notice, but I paused and stood over the boy. I wanted to feel something--wanted to find some understanding in his actions; some empathy in his upbringing; at least a fragment of sympathy for the secret he carried.”
― Christopher Scotton, quote from The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
“He looked at me with sunken eyes, unburdened by any great curiosity and ringed in gray and dark-blue shadows that logged his hard living like tree rings.”
― Christopher Scotton, quote from The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
“She nodded her head silently to the demons taking tea with her on the sofa.”
― Christopher Scotton, quote from The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
“Men like Bubba Boyd think the earth owes them a living. They take whatever wealth they can from the mountains and move on. I actually feel sorry for him, I really do. He can’t for the life of him see the simple beauty in a waterfall or understand the importance of history and place. If I have one hope for you, Kevin, it’s that you never become one of those men.”
― Christopher Scotton, quote from The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
Christopher Scotton
Born place: in Washington, D.C., The United States
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