16 Quotes by Paul Doiron

I fondly recall the magical time, two minutes earlier, when hypothermia was my major concern in life. I keep pressing my hand against my thigh.

I choke out river water, take the biggest breath I have ever taken, and look up at snowflakes blowing like feathers across the sky.

He pointed the barrel at me from a distance of five yards. I heard the shot just before I dove into the lake.

I could tell it needled him that I could cast all ninety feet of my fly line and into the backing. He kept trying to muscle his line out farther and farther, which is the surest way to sabotage your casts.

I thought about how every border on earth is a man-made fiction. The birds are never fooled.

In Maine, you were a fool if you put away your snow shovel before Mother’s Day.

To think that the ancient partnership between wolves and ravens, long gone from this part of the world, had re-formed here was nothing short of awe-inspiring.