Quotes from Garth Stein

I'm sure my father was a terrier. Because 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.

He never understood, as I did, what she meant when she said that medication would only mask the pain, not make it go away, and what's the point of that. He never understood when she said that if she went to a doctor, the doctor would only invent a disease that would explain why he couldn't help her. And there was so much time between episodes. There was so much hope.

But trust me when I tell you that the zebra is real. Somewhere, the zebra is dancing.

I marveled at them both; how difficult it must be to be a person. To constantly subvert your desires. To worry about doing the right thing, rather than doing what is most expedient.

When I am racing, my mind and my body are working so quickly and so well together, I must be sure no to think, or else I will definitely make a mistake.

the result is what people live with, not the cause.

The true test of a champion is not whether he can triumph, but whether he can overcome obstacles.

We do not see things the way they are, we see them as we are. —ANAÏS NIN

You know, he said, at some point you're going to realize that being a smart-ass isn't about being smart as it is about being an ass.

if money affects who you love, then it isn't really love.

To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of life, as Eve felt the joy of life. To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter every day. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to. When I am a person, that is how I will live my life.

Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature. And while I occasionally step over the line and into the world of the melodramatic, it is what I must do in order t communicate clearly and effectively.

Try to imprint what I know on my soul, a thing that has no surface, no sides, no pages, no form of any kind.

You know," he said, "at some point you're going to realize that being a smart-ass isn't as much about being smart as it is about being an ass.

Intention is everything.

Eve and Denny were in love with the place. They spent almost the entire first night there rolling around naked in every room except Zoë's.

Ben Harrison is a dick-faced troll!

Music doesn't have a bedtime,

But my thoughts turned to what he had just taught me. 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.

So he didn't fall hopelessly into the bottle, the refuge of the weak and the maudlin.

To live each day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of life, as Eve felt the joy of life. To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter every day. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am I am. That is something to aspire to. When I am a person, that is how I will live my life.

The first time I saw you," he says, "I knew we belonged together." Yes! Me, too!

and therefore without judgment. Is it possible? That which is around me does not affect my mood; my mood affects that which is around me. Is it

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