52 Quotes by Tom Spanbauer

They're from France, Ruby said, Vogue magazine. They only speak French except for fuck you.

To admit ignorance is the highest knowledge. It is the necessary condition for all learning.

The Shy Hunter is terrified that others will destroy the truth within his heart, Rose said, And so the Shy Hunter armours himself ... thus armoured, he watches and waits and studies the world meticulously, hunting the world for prey ... Prey not in the sense of devouring or murder, Rose said, But prey in the sense of hunting for sore truths within another human heart.

Things start where you don't know and end up where you know. When you know is when you ask, How did this start?

You're going this way and then shit happens and then you're going that way.

Sometimes the world is so beautiful it hurts.

We’re all just in our bodies for a moment in our life. Such a brave and lovely act it is to let the body celebrate.

Her heartbeat was in her hands, her heart beat the way she moved her head, her whole body was her heart beating.

Life is a mess, Rose said. You can fix the mess human beings make, Rose said, But you can’t fix the mess being human is.