38 Quotes by Clare Vanderpool

Maybe that was how I found comfort just then, even with him being so far away. By remembering the flavor of his words.

Finally, Gunner spoke, his voice so fluid and moving, it could have come from the river itself. "I once hear a poem about angling. It say when you send out your line, it is like you cast out your troubles to let the current carry them away. I keep casting.

Fly-fishing is the sport of the thinkers and the dreamers, Gunner said. It is the contemplative man's recreation.If that was so, I thought Jesus a likely candidate for fly-fishing...

Finding your way doesn’t mean you always know where you’re going. It’s knowing how to find your way back home that’s important.

There are no coincidences. Just miracles by the boatload.

Memories were like sunshine. They warmed you up and left a pleasant glow, but you couldn’t hold them.

When there is suffering, we look for a reason. That reason is easiest found within oneself.

They call themselves the Ku Klux Klan and they hate pretty much everyone who isn’t like them. If you have the wrong color, religion, or birthplace, they don’t like you. Around here it’s mostly foreigners they hate.

Maybe the world wasn’t made of universals that could be summed up in neat little packages. Maybe there were just people. People who were tired and hurt and lonely and kind in their own way and their own time.