113 Quotes by David Guterson

Everybody knows what God is,′ said his mother. ‘You feel what God is, don’t you?

Let us so live in this trying time that when it is all over we can look one another in the eye with the knowledge that we have behaved honourably and fairly.

Tourists reminded him of other places and elicited in him a prodding doubt that living here was what he wanted.

People appeared enormously foolish to him. He understood that they were only animated cavities full of jelly and strings and liquids.

He told himself he had never felt so happy, and he felt a sort of ache that this was happening and would never again happen in just this way no matter how long he lived.