“Watch anyone enter their arena of real mastery and you see it, the growing bigger than themselves. Love that.” — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“Hey where are the old stakes for the beans? Where did we put em? Jasper’s ears came up and his mouth opened… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“The creek at night under the moon was just enough like the creek in daylight to be reassuring. There was the deadfall… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being in the love. In… — Peter Heller Desperate Copy Share Image
“You can pull a goat off into the field, but a memory you can only haul into the sun and hope it… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
You rest now. Rest for longer than you are used to resting. Make a stillness around you, a field of peace. Your… — Peter Heller Best time Copy Share Image
“Tapas is a fancy way of saying a morsel of food for a fuckload of money, but I didn’t mind, I was… — Peter Heller Money Copy Share Image
“Ich schließe meine Augen. Was da drinnen los ist. Was da zappelt, was da wie ein blinder Fisch durch den Schmerz schwimmt,… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“I went over to the painting and looked closely. It had changed in my absence, something paintings liked to do.” — Peter Heller Painting Copy Share Image
“Funny how you can live your whole life waiting and not know it... Waiting for your real life to begin. Maybe the… — Peter Heller Life Copy Share Image
My dad's wife, my stepmom, is a serious painter. My dad also paints. My mother is a brilliant sculptor, and her husband… — Peter Heller Brilliant Copy Share Image
“Because at night there is a comfort in moving darkly. In slipping through, shadow to shadow. Can’t say why. Maybe because we… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think that’s all you need. A good man with a fishing tip, a wave. A woman once in a while.… — Peter Heller Good man Copy Share Image
“Nobody on earth is more righteous than a seventeen year old. (244)” — Peter Heller Justice Copy Share Image
There's always been in my life that tension between living and writing. For me, because I'm so physically exuberant, it was extra… — Peter Heller Hard Copy Share Image
“When you kill do you also conjoin somehow? In some horrible communion you will never shake? Is that why soldiers come home… — Peter Heller Goals Copy Share Image
“She also confessed that in an odd way she was happier here than she'd ever been. Even with all the loss. Happier… — Peter Heller Happiness Copy Share Image
I write a thousand words a day, and I always stop in the middle of a scene or thought, and it makes… — Peter Heller Day Copy Share Image
There is no one to tell this to and yet it seems very important to get this right. The reality and what… — Peter Heller Bears Copy Share Image
I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo. I don't know why. Is it because we are so… — Peter Heller Being true Copy Share Image
The one thing they didn't tell you at Iowa is how hard it is to make a living writing fiction and poetry. — Peter Heller Hard Copy Share Image
“Sometimes back then, fishing with Jasper up the Sulphur, I hit my limit. I mean it felt my heart might just burst.… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
Writing nonfiction, you're responsible to posterity, to history, to other people because the events happened, and you feel responsible to record them… — Peter Heller Events Copy Share Image
