Brian Doyle Quotes
Edward believes that all religions are cousins at heart and begin in the right spirit but then they are corrupted by the desire for power.
...awkward passion is so often so very much more admirable than mere achievement.
Love is the story and the prayer that matters the most.
All stories are, in some form, prayers.
But if we do not dream, then I think perhaps we are misusing our heads. They are not on our shoulders only to be farms for hair.
There are stories in the air as thick as birds around me, he would say. I will save those stories from starving he would say. I have a great hunger for stories, he would say.
Maybe we guzzle forty stories with every breath we draw and they soak into us and flavor and thicken and spice the wild stew we are.
Maturity turns out to be a question you can never answer with confidence, despite advanced age and wage.
Some women have a pulsing energy almost too sharp and salty to endure and when they are in pain their pain is ferocious and shatters all over the place.
Well the sky always seemed like another ocean to me, you know? Like we live between two incredible oceans, and we'll never get to the bottom of either of them.