30 Quotes by Ivan Doig

Anyone who grows up around farm animals cannot side with a wolf in the long clash of things. But you can be against tormenting any creature.

Believe me, I have looked this up, and the roots of fate and faith are not the same. Nonetheless, I picked up my wicker suitcase to follow Herman the German into the Old Faithful Inn.

What a wealth we are granted, in the books that carry the best in us through time.

People come and go in our lives; that’s as old a story as there is. But some of them the heart cries out to keep forever; and that is a fresh saga everytime.

Twelve years old was awfully early to meet up with what inevitability does to possibility.

Provider of moonbeams when I wanted full illumination.

If I have learned anything in a lifetime spent overseeing schools, it is that childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.

It takes a collector to know a collector, even if you do stack your treasures in your head instead of out on a shelf.

What scrunched under our overshoes as we trudged through the stubble of the grainfield was the nasty mix of moistureless snow and windblown dirt that we called “snirt.