33 Quotes by Jerry Gill

Vic held conviction that you should never overlook anything which might increase survival odds by even a single percent. That one percent might be the edge needed to stay alive.

Those are all incredible, magical things, Vic, things no one else will ever believe. Do you realize how wonderful that is, to know without a doubt that the impossible is possible.

It was a good evening. The circumstances melded there-and-then with days beside the Restless Sea 100,000 years past. Time in-between did not exist.

What extraordinary luck, Vic said to herself. Her primitive instinct for danger sensed the situation was something other than good luck. The hair stood on her neck, and she got gooseflesh. Vic smiled, and thought, Yeah, that’s what I figured.

She wasn’t sure if she then whispered a statement or asked a question: It’s magic. Not the kind we only hope for but the kind we make for ourselves, the kind we earn.

Vic had no doubt that at times we have no control over which way a day will go. Still, it did not shake her faith in the belief that most of the time we have a choice. Vic gave thanks for that choice several times that day as she rolled on the floor like a three-year-old and played with Luisa.

Your grandpa sounds like a swell guy.”“He was. He threw me a loop sometimes, though. He’d add to that list of do-gooders someone like the fox who ate the gingerbread boy. I remember almost crying, saying that wasn’t a happy ending. Grandpa told me it was happy for the hungry fox, and the boy was so arrogant he got what he needed.” "Wow! I guess the moral is to be good.

The cold was harsh and even painful. Yet it screamed that she was alive and it was a circumstance she must deal with to move ahead. A thousand generations earlier, she developed the attitude that one should never complain about being alive.

The man laughed. “When my grandpa used to tell me stories, lots of times, he finished by telling me the same thing. They are all the same, boy. The woodcutter who saved Little Red Riding Hood, the good fairy, Santa Claus, any good guy you care to name. All the same. When someone needs something and deserves it, he or she shows up in exactly the right disguise to fit the occasion.