“What I have always liked best is when he talks about having no memory. No memory of things he'd done just a… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
“This is just a crisis. A flash! A single match struck against the implacable darkness of time! You are the one who… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
“memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present.” — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
I suddenly realized. The zebra. It is not something outside of us. The zebra is something inside of us. Our fears. Our… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In order to reach any kind… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
“This is what I would like. To play in those fields for a little longer. To spend a little more time being… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
“Perhaps that's what life is about--the search for such a connection. The search for magic. The search for the inexplicable. Not in… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
People are always worried about what's happening next. They often find it difficult to stand still, to occupy the now without worrying… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
“Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present.” — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
[M]emory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
“But what I’ve always liked best is when he talks about having no memory. No memory of things he’d done just a… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
“Stories continue in all directions to include even the retelling of the stories themselves, as legend is informed by interpretation, and interpretation… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
And I wonder: Have I squandered my dogness? Have I forsaken my nature for my desires? Have I made a mistake by… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
“struck by the pain of the ice and the rage of the water below that was forced to make room for the… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
And it is clear to Evan, now: the difference between what is and what has been done; the present and the past.… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
I could have grabbed his shirt collar. I could have pulled him close to me, so close he could feel my breath… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
“Man's closest relative is not the chimpanzee, as the TV people believe, but is, in fact, the dog. "Enzo" I admire the female sex.… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
“There is no dishonor in losing the race, Don said. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose. ~p 227” — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
It’s so hard to communicate because there are so many moving parts. There’s presentation and there’s interpretation and they’re so dependent on each other… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
“This is what I love to do: I love to run through a field of wet grass that has not been mowed recently, I… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose. — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
In racing, they say that your car goes where your eyes go. The driver who cannot tear his eyes away from the wall as… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
When I return to the world, I will be a man. I will walk among you. I will lick my lips with my small,… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
My soul has learned what it came to learn, and all the other things are just things. We can't have everything we want. Sometimes,… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
I hear hundreds of years of life. I hear wind and rain and fire and beetles. I hear the seasons changing and birds and… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
“What I have always liked best is when he talks about having no memory. No memory of things he'd done just a second before.… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
“Know who is driving next to you. Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image