“Strangers, he remembered, can tell you how old you are without trying. The looks you get or don't get let you know exactly where you're at, where you're headed and where you can never go again.” — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
“...that's the nature of marine life and the inland bays I grew up on. You'd have to be a scientist, a poet and a… — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
“Something had snapped between us, and I had no idea how to glue it back together.” — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
“The word he used was coup, and I'm not speaking French just to arouse you.” — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
“I hate myself pretty often" .She tilted her face back on the pillow, damning tears and attempting so smile at the same time. "Pretty… — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
I was a political reporter for quite some time, so I followed around all sorts of different politicians. — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
“It surprised me to want her [my mother] the most, but I'd never been miserable without her.” — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
“Though Brandon claimed to be six-six, because that was all the height most people could fathom, he was actually a quarter inch over six-eight-and… — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
I do think that there are gray lines of morality in a newsroom, when it comes to some stories. The best-intentioned journalist still has… — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
“Grown-ups are always more fascinated by what you might become then what you are.” — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
“See as much as you can see, I guess. Rachel Carson said most of us go through life "unseeing." I do that some days...I… — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
“I was a fluke in a classroom full of flukes on a planet overpopulated by flukes.” — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
“He looked older, too, like a man sucking it up, wrestling with problems he had been trying to conceal. This Norm saw as progress” — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
“When Rachel Carson accepted the National Book Award, she said, 'if there is poetry in my book about the sea it is not because… — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
“I'm not worried about you because you don't get it your own way. You never have, and believe it or not, that makes you… — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image