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> [“Stories always started this way, suddenly, and set within a strange world. Patience is required, to let the stories unroll. This is how people explan their lives.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-behrens/stories-always-started-this-way-suddenly-and-set-within-a-strange/)

[Peter Behrens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-behrens/)

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## More by Peter Behrens

> [Quoting E. B. White is the easiest way I know of to fool people into thinking that I am perceptive, witty, and wise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-behrens/quoting-e-b-white-is-the-easiest-way-i-know-of-to-fool-people-into/)

[Peter Behrens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-behrens/)

> [“This will become the story of a young woman, Karin Weinbrenner. Her story is not mine, but sometimes her story feels like the armature…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-behrens/this-will-become-the-story-of-a-young-woman-karin-weinbrenner-her/)

[Peter Behrens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-behrens/)

> [Design is not about decorating functional forms - it is about creating forms that accord with the character of the object and that show…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-behrens/design-is-not-about-decorating-functional-forms-it-is-about-creating/)

[Peter Behrens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-behrens/)

> [Don't think that even an engineer, when he buys a motor, takes it to bits to scrutinize it. Even he as a specialist buys…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-behrens/don-t-think-that-even-an-engineer-when-he-buys-a-motor-takes-it-to/)

[Peter Behrens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-behrens/)

> [Is courage just the awareness that gestures, journeys, lives have intrinsic shape, and must, one way or another, be completed?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-behrens/is-courage-just-the-awareness-that-gestures-journeys-lives-have/)

[Peter Behrens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-behrens/)

> [“Marriage is a mystery.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-behrens/marriage-is-a-mystery/)

[Peter Behrens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-behrens/)

> [“Burning aviators, clots of fire. The reeking night jar in our bedroom in Muswell Hill. Children skipping round me in a school yard, shouting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-behrens/burning-aviators-clots-of-fire-the-reeking-night-jar-in-our-bedroom/)

[Peter Behrens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-behrens/)

> [“I was suddenly afraid she was going to climb the rail and leap into the sea. But maybe she wasn't. Maybe it was a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-behrens/i-was-suddenly-afraid-she-was-going-to-climb-the-rail-and-leap-into/)

[Peter Behrens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-behrens/)

> [“I don't want to lose you over tedious genealogy and history that must be very dim to you. This is a story of real…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-behrens/i-don-t-want-to-lose-you-over-tedious-genealogy-and-history-that-must/)

[Peter Behrens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-behrens/)

> [“Sooner or later everyone disguises themselves and where they have been and what they have done.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-behrens/sooner-or-later-everyone-disguises-themselves-and-where-they-have/)

[Peter Behrens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-behrens/)

> [“Perhaps if I had been able to put things in plain language, it might have been plain that things between us were so damnably…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-behrens/perhaps-if-i-had-been-able-to-put-things-in-plain-language-it-might/)

[Peter Behrens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-behrens/)

> [“Stories always started this way, suddenly, and set within a strange world. Patience is required, to let the stories unroll. This is how people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-behrens/stories-always-started-this-way-suddenly-and-set-within-a-strange/)

[Peter Behrens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-behrens/)

> [Type is one of the most eloquent means of expression in every epoch of style. Next to architecture, it gives the most characteristic portrait…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-behrens/type-is-one-of-the-most-eloquent-means-of-expression-in-every-epoch/)

[Peter Behrens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-behrens/)

> [“When we were apart and I thought of her, I left words out of it. What came to mind instead were flashes of bold…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-behrens/when-we-were-apart-and-i-thought-of-her-i-left-words-out-of-it-what/)

[Peter Behrens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-behrens/)

> [“What you lost weakened you, could kill you. What you wanted kept you going. What you wanted gave you strength.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-behrens/what-you-lost-weakened-you-could-kill-you-what-you-wanted-kept-you/)

[Peter Behrens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-behrens/)

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