Quotes from Garth Stein

I had always wanted to love Eve as Denny loved her, but I never had because I was afraid. She was my rain. She was my unpredictable element. She was my fear. But a racer should not be afraid of the rain; a racer should embrace the rain.

I didn't want to admit that I still slept with a stuffed animal. But I did. I loved that dog.

Llorar ayuda porque lava el dolor.

With a book—presuming it's a good book—you can depend upon an outcome that adheres to the necessities of drama.

Your car goes where your eyes go. Simply another way of saying that you make your own destiny.

Know who is driving next to you. 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.

do not blame other people for being themselves, you will only be frustrated by it.

Such a simple concept, yet so true: that which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves. I

And when a bitch was in heat, he'd mount her good and go about his business without a thought about who was watching or who cared.

What can I do but force myself to remember? Try to imprint what I know on my soul, a thing that has no surface, no sides, no pages, no form of any kind. Carry it so deeply in the pockets of my existence that when I open my eyes and look down at my new hands with their thumbs that are able to close tightly around their fingers, I will already know. I will already see.

Memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present.

To live everyday as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live.

We all play by the same rules. But some people spend more time reading those rules and figuring out how to make them work in their behalf.

Did he understand, as those interminable minutes ticked by, that being alone is not the same as being lonely? That being alone is neutral state; [...]. Is it possible? That which is around me does not affect my mood; my mood affects that which is around me. Is it true? Could Denny have possibly appreciated the subjective nature of loneliness, which is something that exists only in the mind, not in the world, and, like a virus, is unable to survive without a willing host?

Did he understand, as those interminable minutes ticked by, that being alone is not the same as being lonely? That being alone is a neutral state; [...]. Is it possible? That which is around me does not affect my mood; my mood affects that which is around me. Is it true? Could Denny have possibly appreciated the subjective nature of loneliness, which is something that exists only in the mind, not in the world, and, like a virus, is unable to survive without a willing host?

Just because the light is green doesn't mean you shouldn't look both ways before stepping into the street.

all the things that are beyond our comprehension, but even so, are not beyond our attainment if we choose to attain them, and believe that we truly can.

We are the creators of our own destiny,

More wine helps; it takes the edge off the despair.

Grandparents are like that. Grandparents are convinced they're better parents than their own kids, whose lives they've already fucked up. The problem is, grandparents are pains in the ass because they have money

being alone is not the same as being lonely?

We are all connected -- I believed it then and believe it still now -- at least in an energetic sense. And who's to say this energy is not real? We can't see gravity, either, yet we don't deny it. We can't see magnetism, yet we don't question its forcefulness. So, why, then, when people -- spiritual people -- talk about a force of substance that binds us all, that unites us all -- when these people talk about souls -- why do we dismiss them as charlatans?

To remember is to leave the present.

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