It is okay for people you love to leave. For them to come and go. She taught it to me over and… — Peter Heller Comes and goes Copy Share Image
Life and death lived inside each other. That's what occured to me. Death was inside all of us, waiting for warmer nights,… — Peter Heller Beetles Copy Share Image
My dad was a copywriter on Madison Avenue at the same time as the TV show 'Mad Men' is set. My mom… — Peter Heller Dad Copy Share Image
“So I wonder what it is this need to tell. To animate somehow the deathly stillness of the profoundest beauty. Breathe life… — Peter Heller Beauty Copy Share Image
“Maybe freedom really is nothing left to lose. You had it once in childhood, when it was okay to climb a tree,… — Peter Heller Bike Copy Share Image
“He is at home with his solitude as the note reverberating inside a bell.” — Peter Heller Solitude Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be a novelist, so I just try to write really great narrative. — Peter Heller Always Copy Share Image
“Is it possible to love by simply not being an ass? I don't think so. But it goes a long way to… — Peter Heller Long way Copy Share Image
I wrote strong advocacy stories, and when I got to fiction, I made a deliberate effort to leave that behind and enter… — Peter Heller Carrying Copy Share Image
“What I realized standing there, is that this dark yearning is what happens when we idealize anything: the form of a woman,… — Peter Heller Desire Copy Share Image
Writing 'Dog Stars' was coming home. My spirit just sang. It's what I wanted to do my whole life. — Peter Heller Coming home Copy Share Image
“Still. No resolution ever. None. Nothing decided, nothing finished. The Dipper wheels back into place. Just one turn. One turn of the… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“I woke sometime in the middle of the night and lay in the hammock, wriggled my foot out of the sleeping bag… — Peter Heller Middle of the night Copy Share Image
“She thought that one might not make a dent in the Great Sadness, but one could help make another person whole.” — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“Pa smiled an inward smile. He always took delight in the pure souls of the earth, wherever they shone.” — Peter Heller Nature Copy Share Image
“The albatross hit the top and canted her soft belly to the storm, and made a screaming banked peel-out downwind and over… — Peter Heller Antarctica Copy Share Image
When I got out of college, I had to make a living, and I started writing for magazines, and it felt like… — Peter Heller College Copy Share Image
I got out of Iowa all set to be a poet and a novelist, but you know what? It's really tough to… — Peter Heller Iowa Copy Share Image
“The flakes stuck in my eyelashes. They fell on my sleeves. Huge. Flowers and stars. They fell onto each other, held their… — Peter Heller Flowers Copy Share Image
“The reason people are so moved by art and why artists tend to take it all so seriously is that if they… — Peter Heller Art Copy Share Image
“They bred dogs for everything else, even diving for fish, why didn’t they breed them to live longer, to live as long… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
