Meager as it is. Nothing to lose as I have. Nothing is something somehow. — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“Never know how you feel about someone until they die and come back.” — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“Pete half smiled. It was his way of giving vigorous applause.” — Peter Heller Applause Copy Share Image
“I would be moving in the cold of the settling evening, the few stars in the chasm overhead, the only way I… — Peter Heller Cold 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
Grief is an element. It has its own cycle like the carbon cycle, the nitrogen. It never diminishes not ever. It passes… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“Pursuing fun is exhausting. Having fun is just fun. Much more relaxing just to do your work, don't you think? I mean… — Peter Heller Fun Copy Share Image
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
“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
To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting. — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
Most of us are never seen, not clearly, and when we are we likely jump and run. — Peter Heller Running 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 Jasper Copy Share Image
“Well, I think that’s sort of like Eve biting the apple. You were talking about Genesis. I think it’s like that, the… — 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
“Something like laughter. That a flower could be this small, this fleeting, that a snowflake could be so large, so persistent. The… — Peter Heller Laughter Copy Share Image
With fiction, I felt like I could bring to bear my full imagination, my entire heart, and so you feel very vulnerable.… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“He's getting old. I don't count the years. I don't multiply by seven. They bred dogs for everything else, even diving for… — Peter Heller Animal 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 Collapse Copy Share Image
She's a surprise this old earth, one big surprise after another since before she separated from the moon who circles and circles… — Peter Heller Big sur 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 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
“Maybe freedom really is nothing left to lose. You had it once in childhood, when it was okay to climb a tree,… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“Ha. Admit it: you don't have the slightest idea what you are doing, you never ever did. With all the nets in… — Peter Heller Love Of Your Life Copy Share Image
“I always gave her a book. An old hardback from the same section in the used bookstore where you'd find Hardy Boys… — Peter Heller Book Copy Share Image
“In the November 2006 issue of Science, a report by an international team of scientists studying a vast amount of data gathered… — Peter Heller Conservation 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 Copy Share Image
“Because that's what it turned into: in front of a fine painting a viewer stopped looking and started watching, watching is more… — Peter Heller Artist Copy Share Image
I have two younger sisters, and it was a family full of creativity. — Peter Heller Creativity 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
Loss is universal. I've lost grandparents that I dearly adored, lost animals that were like brothers to me. Many of us have… — Peter Heller Animals 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 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
“He's a cocky SOB. He knew the Nick Adams Stories. Probably a frustrated English major who graduated from college qualified to drive… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
