“We have traveled. Now you will be the path I will walk I will walk Over you.” — Peter Heller Journey Copy Share Image
“I’m not sure of anything,” she said. “Which is almost wonderful.” — Peter Heller Freedom Copy Share Image
Species are going extinct because of habitat loss and warming. I feel deeply responsible and think about it every day. — Peter Heller Day Copy Share Image
“The pleasure almost split me like a baking stuffed tomato. Like my heart swelled and my skin got thinner and thinner in… — Peter Heller Business Copy Share Image
The great thing about fiction is that everything you care about ends up going into the book. — Peter Heller Book Copy Share Image
“She collapsed. I stepped forward and caught her. I thought of two trees nearly unrooted and leaning against each other.” — Peter Heller Collapsed Copy Share Image
I like the drinking-out-of-the-fire-hose approach - you're getting way more than you can handle. — Peter Heller Approach Copy Share Image
Wanted to write fiction since I was 11, since I first read 'In Our Time' by Hemingway. — Peter Heller Fiction Copy Share Image
“I think there should be tribunals for social cruelty as there are for physical assault. Calculated cuts in the first degree. Snobicide… — Peter Heller Social Cruelty Copy Share Image
“It occurred to me that the death of his grazing land hurt him more, incomparably more than the death of the human… — Peter Heller Death Copy Share Image
“Sometimes now I think just making it through a day is the point. Practically a triumph, don't you think? If you don't… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“we can proceed in our lives just as easily from love to love as from loss to loss. A good thing to… — Peter Heller Breaths Copy Share Image
“It's early spring, some late or early hour with Orion toppling backward onto the serrated edge of the mountains and not crying… — Peter Heller Bull Copy Share Image
Kook means the clueless beginner who paddles his surf board out to the other surfers in the lineup and starts chattering away… — Peter Heller Beginner Copy Share Image
“Something like laughter. That a flower could be this small, this fleeting, that a snowflake could be so large, so persistent. The… — Peter Heller Laughter Copy Share Image
“Well, I think that’s sort of like Eve biting the apple. You were talking about Genesis. I think it’s like that, the… — Peter Heller Crow Copy Share Image
“I once had a book on the stars but now I don't. My memory serves but not stellar, ha. So I made… — Peter Heller Astronomy Copy Share Image
“Because that's what it turned into: in front of a fine painting a viewer stopped looking and started watching, watching is more… — Peter Heller Artist Copy Share Image
“Ha. Admit it: you don't have the slightest idea what you are doing, you never ever did. With all the nets in… — Peter Heller Love Of Your Life Copy Share Image
All my journalism, all my books are first person, and it's all memoir. Even when I'm writing about the oil spill in… — Peter Heller Books Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a writer. I was writing poetry when I was 6. — Peter Heller Always Copy Share Image
I have two younger sisters, and it was a family full of creativity. — Peter Heller Creativity Copy Share Image
If there is nothing else there is this: to be inundated, consumed. — Peter Heller Consumed Copy Share Image
“Pete half smiled. It was his way of giving vigorous applause.” — Peter Heller Applause Copy Share Image
Maybe the most real thing the end. To realize when it's too late. — Peter Heller Ends Copy Share Image
“Never know how you feel about someone until they die and come back.” — Peter Heller Come Copy Share Image
That is what we are, what we do: nose a net, push push, a net that never exists. The knots in the… — Peter Heller Believe Copy Share Image
Writing 'Dog Stars' was coming home. My spirit just sang. It's what I wanted to do my whole life. — Peter Heller Coming home Copy Share Image
My dad's wife, my stepmom, is a serious painter. My dad also paints. My mother is a brilliant sculptor, and her husband… — Peter Heller Brilliant Copy Share Image
“our job as citizens, apparently, is the pursuit of happiness. Something I always have to gird myself for. I’d much rather just… — Peter Heller Happiness Copy Share Image
“If we all knew what was coming, maybe we wouldn’t even stick around for it. Time present and time future.” — Peter Heller Time Copy Share Image
I write a thousand words a day, and I always stop in the middle of a scene or thought, and it makes… — Peter Heller Day Copy Share Image
New Zealand is weird. I mean, it does not seem of this earth, not to me. It really is like something made… — Peter Heller Mean Copy Share Image
“A road trip frees the mind, revitalizes the spirit, and infuses the body with Dr Pepper and teriyaki jerky.” — Peter Heller Dr pepper Copy Share Image
“Because at night there is a comfort in moving darkly. In slipping through, shadow to shadow. Can’t say why. Maybe because we… — Peter Heller Night Copy Share Image
“The most indisputable beauty may be the one that people cannot ever touch. That God exists up there somehow, in the peaks… — Peter Heller Beauty Copy Share Image
“Funny how you can live your whole life waiting and not know it... Waiting for your real life to begin. Maybe the… — Peter Heller Life Copy Share Image
