Garth Stein

“One more lap, Denny! One more lap! Faster! ”

— Garth Stein

“That what you manifest is before you”

— Garth Stein

That which we manifest is before us.

— Garth Stein

Yet for every peak there is a valley.

— Garth Stein

“Gestures are all that I have.”

— Garth Stein

“To remember is to disengage from the present.”

— Garth Stein

Somewhere, the zebra is dancing.

— Garth Stein

That which you manifest is before you.

— Garth Stein

[M]emory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present.

— Garth Stein

“The race is long. To finish first, you must first finish.”

— Garth Stein

The first time I saw you,' he says, 'I knew we belonged together.

— Garth Stein

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

— Garth Stein

Those monkey-thumbs were meant for dogs. Give me my thumbs, you fu**ing monkeys!

— Garth Stein

“a racer will never let something that has already happened affect what is happening now.”

— Garth Stein

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

— Garth Stein

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

— Garth Stein

“Eve continued with the inexorable process of dying, Zoe spent too much time with her grandparents, and Denny and I worked at…

— Garth Stein

“To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter every day. To say I am alive, I…

— Garth Stein

“The race is long. It is better to drive within oneself and finish the race behind the others than it is to…

— Garth Stein

“A race car driver must be very selfish. It is a cold truth: even his family must came second to the race.”

— Garth Stein

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

— Garth Stein

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

— Garth Stein

“A man who drives a two-thousand-pound car at one hundred seventy miles per hour does not get flustered by the honking of…

— Garth Stein

She was my rain. She was my unpredictable element. She was my fear. But a racer should not be afraid of rain;…

— Garth Stein

The sun rises every day. What is to love? Lock the sun in a box. Force the sun to overcome adversity in…

— Garth Stein

“She died that night. Her last breath took her soul; I saw it in my dream. I saw her soul leave her…

— Garth Stein

“After this happens, Denny will be free to live his life, and I will return to earth in a new form, as…

— Garth Stein

But somewhere, a child surprises himself with his endurance, his quick mind, his dexterous hands. Somewhere a child accomplishes with ease that…

— Garth Stein

I know this much about racing in the rain. I know it is about balance. It is about anticipation and patience... [it…

— Garth Stein

King Karma; I know that karma is a force in this universe, and that people will receive karmic justice for their actions.…

— Garth Stein

“To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I want to live. To feel the…

— Garth Stein

These are things that only dogs and women understand because we tap into the pain directly, we connect to pain directly from…

— Garth Stein

A winner, a champion, will accept his fate. He will continue with his wheels in the dirt. He will do his best…

— Garth Stein

“Stories continue in all directions to include even the retelling of the stories themselves, as legend is informed by interpretation, and interpretation…

— Garth Stein

“This is what I love to do: I love to run through a field of wet grass that has not been mowed…

— Garth Stein

“What did we do before Google? Before Wi-Fi? Before cable modems? Before cell phone towers on every building? Before that? We did…

— Garth Stein

“Inside each of us resides the truth, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes…

— Garth Stein

And it is clear to Evan, now: the difference between what is and what has been done; the present and the past.…

— Garth Stein

“Did he understand, as those interminable minutes ticked by, that being alone is not the same as being lonely? That being alone…

— Garth Stein

“Who is Achilles without his tendon? Who is Samson without Delilah? Who is Oedipus without his clubfoot? Mute by design, I have…

— Garth Stein