28 Quotes by Doug Dorst

It was stolen. As most beautiful things eventually are.

What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin.

Something about her in this moment strikes him as being familiar. The motion of her arm? The shape of her hand? The wrinkle of her upper lip? He does not know. Nor does he have any way to tell whether what he is sensing is a fragment of memory, a fragment of an idea of a memory, or something his mind, desperate for connections, has created on its own.

They all occupied the same space but did not occupy it together. Imagine a thousand leaves of tracing paper, each with one person lightly pencilled on it, all stacked atop a scene of a frozen city block. A thousand discreet and solitary realities that appear to be occurring in the same location.

Of course there is a monkey. There is always a monkey.

- I can't make choices like that without knowing who I am. Without knowing all the implications.- You can't ever know in advance. Big decisions require faith.

He has been through too much – too much suffering, too much uncertainty, too much loss, too much trauma – to tolerate not being taken seriously.

Find what you love. Then fight like hell when people try to take it away from you.

A kindred spirit? Perhaps – if not kindred to the man he is, or was, then to the sort of man he wouldn’t mind being.