Jim Lynch

“...that's the nature of marine life and the inland bays I grew up on. You'd have to be a scientist, a poet…

— Jim Lynch

“True love is a tiny pearl, easily imagined and easily lost.”

— Jim Lynch

“Something had snapped between us, and I had no idea how to glue it back together.”

— Jim Lynch

“The word he used was coup, and I'm not speaking French just to arouse you.”

— Jim Lynch

“I hate myself pretty often" .She tilted her face back on the pillow, damning tears and attempting so smile at the same…

— Jim Lynch

I was a political reporter for quite some time, so I followed around all sorts of different politicians.

— Jim Lynch

“It surprised me to want her [my mother] the most, but I'd never been miserable without her.”

— Jim Lynch

“Though Brandon claimed to be six-six, because that was all the height most people could fathom, he was actually a quarter inch…

— Jim Lynch

I do think that there are gray lines of morality in a newsroom, when it comes to some stories. The best-intentioned journalist…

— Jim Lynch

“Grown-ups are always more fascinated by what you might become then what you are.”

— Jim Lynch

“See as much as you can see, I guess. Rachel Carson said most of us go through life "unseeing." I do that…

— Jim Lynch

“I was a fluke in a classroom full of flukes on a planet overpopulated by flukes.”

— Jim Lynch

“He looked older, too, like a man sucking it up, wrestling with problems he had been trying to conceal. This Norm saw…

— Jim Lynch

“When Rachel Carson accepted the National Book Award, she said, 'if there is poetry in my book about the sea it is…

— Jim Lynch

“I'm not worried about you because you don't get it your own way. You never have, and believe it or not, that…

— Jim Lynch

“Strangers, he remembered, can tell you how old you are without trying. The looks you get or don't get let you know…

— Jim Lynch

As a writer, I'm driven by settings. Others are driven by characters or predicaments, but with me, settings come first.

— Jim Lynch