Garth Stein, The Art Of Racing In The Rain Quotes

Somewhere, the zebra is dancing.

Very gently. Like there are eggshells on your pedals, and you don’t want to break them. That’s how you drive in the rain.

There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.

We too, must shatter the mirrors. We must look in to ourselves and root out the distortions until that thing which we know in our hearts is perfect and true, stands before us.

Racing is about discipline and intelligence, not about who has the heavier foot. The one who drives smart will always win in the end.

He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.

[T]he race is long - to finish first, first you must finish.

Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.

Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In order to reach any kind of success in automobile racing, a driver must never remember.

People and their rituals. They cling to things so hard sometimes.

I’ll give you a theory: Man’s closest relative is not the chimpanzee, as the TV people believe, but is, in fact, the dog.

That which you manifest is before you.The visible becomes inevitable. Your car goes where your eyes go.

You’re scaring the dog, ” Trish pointed out. She rarely called me by name. They do that inprisoner of war camps, I’ve heard. Depersonalization.

I believe that people were not so allergic to their environment until they began polluting themselves and their world with so many drugs and toxins.

That which you manifest is before you

It’s so hard to communicate because there are so many moving parts. There’s presentation and there’s interpretationand they’re so dependent on each other it makes things very difficult.

Such a simple concept, yet so true. That which we manifest is before us, we are the creators of our own destiny.

I missed Eve so much I couldn't be a human anymore and feel the pain that humans feel. I had to be an animal again.

Terriers are problem solvers. They'll do what you tell them, but only if it happens to be in line with what they wanted to do anyway.

Eve continued with the inexorable process of dying, Zoe spent too much time with her grandparents, and Denny and I worked at slowing the beating of our hearts so we wouldn't feel so much pain.

Children are not chattel. they cannot be given away or traded in the marketplace.

To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter everyday. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to.