11 Quotes by Guy Vanderhaeghe

She'd whisper to me to take my tiny piece of happiness, hold its honey in my mouth until it melts away.

It might be high summer all about but inside me everything is fall. The lonesomeness of a sad, slow closing of days, knowing frost is nigh and wind needling through the cabin chinks is just around the bend. That's me, right now.

History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.

Not to do as the child wishes would be wrong because he is born on a path, and it would be evil, a crime against nature to make him deny his spirit.

A man descending is propelled by inertia; the only initiative left him is whether or not he decides to enjoy the passing scene.

The Wars is a great book, rich in its images, its language, its construction, and, ultimately, its conception.

It might be high summer all about but inside me everything is fall. The lonesomeness of a sad, slow closing of days, knowing frost is nigh and wind needling through the cabin chinks is just around the bend. That’s me, right now.

But there was also the shame of a man who suddenly discovers that all his lies were transparent, and everything he thought so safely hidden had always been in plain view. He had been living one of those dreams. The kind of dream in which you are walking down the street, meeting friends and neighbours, smiling and nodding, and when you arrive at home an pass a mirror you see for the first time that you are stark naked.

Embrace one another with courage. Search each other’s hearts for hidden suffering and never flee what you discover! That’s the ticket!