“Not to do as the child wishes would be wrong because he is born on a path, and it would be evil, a crime against nature to make him deny his spirit.” — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
“His life, like every other life, could be graphed: an ascent that rises to a peak, pauses at a particular node, and then descends. Only the gradient changes in any particular case: this child's was steeper than most, his descent… — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I feel entirely disassociated from what I do. It's a malady of the modern age.” — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
“Embrace one another with courage. Search each other's hearts for hidden suffering and never flee what you discover! That's the ticket!” — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
“I've always found that a really lively argument depends on the ignorance of the combatants.” — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I feel entirely disassociated form what I do. It's a malady of the modern age.” — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt. — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
“They teach us that in school, matters of principle. I swear it's a plot to get us all slaughtered the day they graduate us… — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
“The fact remains, I was never meant to sell china. Only truly saintly men are cut out for that; the sort of men who… — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
“As long as I can remember I have been carelessly casting myself uninvited into novels where no self-respecting novelist would have me. This literary… — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
“News of the disaster at Little Bighorn reached the Eastern Seaboard shortly after July 4, and not just any ordinary July 4 but the… — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
“He had the neurotic's partial vision of life, and a sense of the absurdity which adheres to all effort when observed in the light… — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
“It might be high summer all about but inside me everything is fall. The lonesomeness of a sad, slow closing of days, knowing frost… — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
“Not to do as the child wishes would be wrong because he is born on a path, and it would be evil, a crime… — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
