“You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents—the rest you let float by.” — David Wroblewski Happiest Accidents Copy Share Image
“It was one thing to live in a world where death stood a distant figure, quite another to hold it in your… — David Wroblewski Death Copy Share Image
“...do you actually think that how long a person grieves is a measure of how much they loved someone?” — David Wroblewski Death Copy Share Image
“Anything can happen. But almost always, just normal things happen and people have happy lives.” — David Wroblewski Fate Copy Share Image
When she walked through the woods (infrequently now) she picked her way along the path, making way for the boy inside to… — David Wroblewski Boys Copy Share Image
“And from the look on his face I could see he was one of the lucky ones, one of those people who… — David Wroblewski Lucky Copy Share Image
When you're making something big, whether it's long-form fiction or a big piece of software, whatever that is, you're having a very… — David Wroblewski Big Copy Share Image
That mirror, that's one I hate to let go, he said. That was my daughter's the whole time she was growing up.… — David Wroblewski Baby Copy Share Image
“In her life, she'd been nourished and sustained by certain things, him being one of them, Trudy another, and Edgar, the third… — David Wroblewski Life Copy Share Image
“Some things were certain - they had already happened - but the future could not be divined. Perhaps by Ida Paine. For… — David Wroblewski Life Copy Share Image
“If you didn't like it, why didn't you quit?" To do what? Wasn't anything I knew better than farming. I was cursed,… — David Wroblewski Curse Copy Share Image
I grew up in the middle of dairy country in Wisconsin, about as far from any major metropolitan area as you can… — David Wroblewski About Copy Share Image
“I think it's just as likely that someone could say that this place, right here, is heaven, hell and earth all at… — David Wroblewski Heaven Copy Share Image
“Edgar, do you actually think that how long a person grieves is a measure of how much they loved someone? There's no… — David Wroblewski Grief Copy Share Image
“He had also been demonstrative and intelligent from the very beginning, his questions startlingly insightful. She would watch him absorb a new… — David Wroblewski Childhood Copy Share Image
No one can say if you are that person who, given good paint, good brushes, and a fine canvas, can produce something… — David Wroblewski Abandoned Copy Share Image
“Henry turned to give Edgar a look—a meaningful look—though Edgar couldn’t be sure exactly what its meaning was. It struck him again… — David Wroblewski Bad news Copy Share Image
She had learned, in her life, that time lived inside you. You are time, you breathe time. When she'd been young, she'd… — David Wroblewski Apple trees Copy Share Image
“He woke one morning tantalized by an idea: if he could catch the orchard trees motionless for one second -- for half… — David Wroblewski Grief Copy Share Image
I set writing aside when I went into theater, and then I set theater aside and subsequently had about a 25-year career… — David Wroblewski About Copy Share Image
“You put yourself in front of the thing and waited for whatever was going to happen and that was all. It scared… — David Wroblewski Scared Didn Copy Share Image
“Just when normal life felt almost possible--when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (prismatic spray of light through… — David Wroblewski Answers Copy Share Image
“She had learned, in her life, that time lived inside you. You are time, you breathe time, though she hadn't understood why...… — David Wroblewski Life Copy Share Image
“The strangest kind of curse had been laid upon him: knowledge without hope of evidence.” — David Wroblewski Curse Copy Share Image
...in that dilated moment after sunset when the sky holds all the light... — David Wroblewski Light Copy Share Image
You couldn't change a river into a sea, but you could trace a new channel for it to follow. — David Wroblewski Rivers Copy Share Image
“Say ‘Ah.’” A-H-H-H-H, he fingerspelled. Doctor Frost glanced at his mother. “He just said ‘ah’ for you,” she said weakly, and smiling.… — David Wroblewski Humor Copy Share Image
“Come morning, his memory would be of a night spent watching over them all. And each of them - dog and boy,… — David Wroblewski Animals Copy Share Image
I think it’s just as likely that someone could say that this place, right here, is heaven, hell and earth all at… — David Wroblewski Earth Copy Share Image
“Others dreamed of finding a person in the world whose soul was made in their mirror image, but Almondine and Edgar had… — David Wroblewski Dreamed Copy Share Image
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first… — David Wroblewski Books Copy Share Image
“When she walked through the woods (infrequently now) she picked her way along the path, making way for the boy inside to… — David Wroblewski Time Copy Share Image
Nothing is going to happen to me, or you, for that matter. Anything can happen, though. Anything can happen. But most always,… — David Wroblewski Anything can happen Copy Share Image
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first… — David Wroblewski Any Copy Share Image
“A person could stop a specific thing, but they couldn’t stop change in general. Rivers can’t run backward. Yet, he felt there… — David Wroblewski Change Copy Share Image
That was how it was, sometimes. You put yourself in front of the thing and waited for whatever was going to happen… — David Wroblewski Eye Copy Share Image
My childhood was spent with dogs, and I work with dogs surrounding me. This relationship is hardly unique - man-and-dog stories date… — David Wroblewski Ancient Copy Share Image
“We'll know we've got it right when they choose for themselves," he used to say. That doesn't make sense. 'That's what I… — David Wroblewski Animal Copy Share Image
“Do you think there is heaven or hell? he signed. ‘I don’t know. Not in the Christian way, if that’s what you… — David Wroblewski Believe Copy Share Image
“He had not opened his eyes in the moment. Her touch had released some tiny increment of the poison bound up in… — David Wroblewski Heart Copy Share Image
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