Brian Doyle

Quotes

• “The coolest most amazing people I have met in my life, I said, are the ones who are not very interested in power or mone...”
• “...people would tell you much more than you expected to if you were generically presentable and left silence next to the...”
• “For a moment this day, for many moments this May, let us gape in awe at the strength of women, and look upon their sinew...”
• “Rained gently last night, just enough to wash the town clean, and then today a clean crisp fat spring day, the air redol...”
• “Everyone thinks that the old days were better, or that they were harder, and the modern times are chaotic and complex, o...”
• “There are some silences that are so huge, and fraught, and haunted, and weighed, and shocked, that they just are; there'...”
• “He claimed he had read the book so many times that the words had fallen out of it and the pages were all blank so he had...”
• “There are stories in the air as thick as birds around me, he would say. I will save those stories from starving he would...”
• “Well the sky always seemed like another ocean to me, you know? Like we live between two incredible oceans, and we'll nev...”
• “Some women have a pulsing energy almost too sharp and salty to endure and when they are in pain their pain is ferocious ...”
• “Maybe we guzzle forty stories with every breath we draw and they soak into us and flavor and thicken and spice the wild ...”
• “Love is the story and the prayer that matters the most.”
• “I am a puzzle and a conundrum and a thunderstorm.”
• “All stories are, in some form, prayers.”