113 Quotes by David Guterson

To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one’s inner life, one’s philosophy and one’s perspective.

You should learn to say nothing that will cause you regret. You should not say what is not in your heart – or what is only in your heart for a moment. But you know this – silence is better.

The trick was to live here without hating yourself because all around you was hatred. The trick was to refuse to allow your pain to prevent you from living honorably.

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don’t feel required to grasp all the time.

The strange thing was, he wanted to like everyone. He just couldn’t find a way to do it.

I know you’ll think this is crazy, but all I want to do is hold you, and I think that if you’ll let me do that just for a few seconds, I can walk away, and never speak to you again.

At one level you’re condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices.

You’ve been kidding yourself about yourself for so long, you’re someone else. Your you is just a fragile fabrication. Every morning, you have to wake up, assemble this busy, dissembling monster, and get him or her on his or her feet again for another round of fantasy.

Post-modernism is dead because it didn’t address human needs.