--- title: "Best Peter Heller Quotations" description: "American writer. Browse 130 Peter Heller quotes." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b125/author-peter-heller-3324.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Peter Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b125/author-peter-heller-3324.jpg) # Peter Heller (1959) Writer United States **130** quotes in **359** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Peter Heller is a writer from the United States, best known for *The River*. ## Quick Facts About Peter Heller Born February 13, 1959 Nationality United States Profession Writer Notable works The River ## About Peter Heller American writer. ## Awards & Honors Q3405351 ## Quotes by Peter Heller · Page 4 > [“When you kill do you also conjoin somehow? In some horrible communion you will never shake? Is that why soldiers come home…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-heller/when-you-kill-do-you-also-conjoin-somehow-in-some-horrible-communion/) [Peter Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-heller/) [Goals](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/goals/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f9a/peter-heller-3324_goals_when-you-kill-do-you-also-conjoin-someho_1248989.jpg) > [“Did you ever read the Bible? I mean sit down and read it like it was a book? Check out Lamentations. That's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-heller/did-you-ever-read-the-bible-i-mean-sit-down-and-read-it-like-it-was-a/) [Peter Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-heller/) [Bible](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bible/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ee/peter-heller-3324_bible_did-you-ever-read-the-bible-i-mean-sit-d_2162897.png) > [“It caught me sometimes: that this was okay. Just this. That simple beauty was still bearable barely, and that if I lived…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-heller/it-caught-me-sometimes-that-this-was-okay-just-this-that-simple/) [Peter Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-heller/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e3/peter-heller-3324_bearable_it-caught-me-sometimes-that-this-was-oka_3198359.png) > [“The most indisputable beauty may be the one that people cannot ever touch. That God exists up there somehow, in the peaks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-heller/the-most-indisputable-beauty-may-be-the-one-that-people-cannot-ever/) [Peter Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-heller/) [Beauty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beauty/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f60/peter-heller-3324_beauty_the-most-indisputable-beauty-may-be-the_2237988.png) > [“Funny how you can live your whole life waiting and not know it... Waiting for your real life to begin. Maybe the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-heller/funny-how-you-can-live-your-whole-life-waiting-and-not-know-it/) [Peter Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-heller/) [Life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cdb/peter-heller-3324_life_funny-how-you-can-live-your-whole-life-w_1168711.png) > [“Because at night there is a comfort in moving darkly. In slipping through, shadow to shadow. Can’t say why. Maybe because we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-heller/because-at-night-there-is-a-comfort-in-moving-darkly-in-slipping/) [Peter Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-heller/) [Night](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/night/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e7/peter-heller-3324_night_because-at-night-there-is-a-comfort-in-m_1206086.png) > [“The flakes stuck in my eyelashes. They fell on my sleeves. Huge. Flowers and stars. They fell onto each other, held their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-heller/the-flakes-stuck-in-my-eyelashes-they-fell-on-my-sleeves-huge-flowers/) [Peter Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-heller/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d6b/peter-heller-3324_blooms_the-flakes-stuck-in-my-eyelashes-they-fe_2954470.png) > [“we can proceed in our lives just as easily from love to love as from loss to loss. A good thing to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-heller/we-can-proceed-in-our-lives-just-as-easily-from-love-to-love-as-from/) [Peter Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-heller/) [Breaths](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/breaths/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce0/peter-heller-3324_breaths_we-can-proceed-in-our-lives-just-as-easi_323541.png) > [There's always been in my life that tension between living and writing. For me, because I'm so physically exuberant, it was extra…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-heller/there-s-always-been-in-my-life-that-tension-between-living-and/) [Peter Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-heller/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d95/peter-heller-3324_hard_there-s-always-been-in-my-life-that-tens_1238978.png) > [“Sometimes now I think just making it through a day is the point. Practically a triumph, don't you think? If you don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-heller/sometimes-now-i-think-just-making-it-through-a-day-is-the-point/) [Peter Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-heller/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9e/peter-heller-3324_think_sometimes-now-i-think-just-making-it-thr_524901.png) ## Peter Heller by topic [Life (16)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/peter-heller/) [Writing (12)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writing/peter-heller/) [Love (11)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/love/peter-heller/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-heller/#itemlist", "name": "Peter Heller Quotes", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“When you kill do you also conjoin somehow? In some horrible communion you will never shake? 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