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21 " And every book ever written is about love, really, whether it knows it or not. So, yeah, I know a thing or two about love. "
― Dan Gemeinhart , The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise
22 " It's something to have someone who misses you when you're gone. And it's something to have someone who fights to get you back. "
23 " I loved the watch until I started hating time. And how it ran out. "
― Dan Gemeinhart , The Honest Truth
24 " And you cannot leave a library. Without a book. "
― Dan Gemeinhart , Scar Island
25 " And for the most part, human beings try to do the right thing, if they can see what that is. "
26 " I don't know. I guess I like...I like...the feeling of catching something. Of saving something. It's like, I don't know, grabbing a little peice of life. All this stuff happens, all these little moments go flying past, and then they're gone. And then you're gone. But when you take a picture, that one moment isn't gone. You caught it. It's yours. And you get to keep it. "
27 " My anger was strong enough to lift me to my feet and, one raised foot at a time, push me higher into the storm.I kept going. The storm was fierce, but so was I. "
28 " I didn't say anything. Sometimes even the right answers sound wrong if you don't like the question. That's the truth. "
29 " Driving toward something is better than driving away from something. "
30 " Mama said that if someone's putting ugliness into the world, you can't be ugly back; you gotta put a little bit of sunshine into the world to even things out. "
― Dan Gemeinhart , Some Kind of Courage
31 " There is so much happiness in the world.There is so much sadness in the world.There is so *much* in the world. "
32 " All the world is dark.But together we build light;Shared, it keeps us warm. "
33 " I guess that's how regrets are...they're anchors, not balloons. And we were sunk "
34 " The best kind of goodbye is the kind where you don’t actually have to leave the person behind. "
35 " Was Tammy being selfish in asking Lester to give up music, or was Lester being selfish in picking music over Tammy? Was Rodeo being selfish in not wanting to take me back ... or was I being selfish in making him go back? Out of nowhere, tears came stinging into my eyes. I just wanted everyone to be happy. It's hard, though, when everyone carries around a heart inside them that is so loud and so strong and so easily broken. "
36 " I was alone alright. And life surely had been a hard trial for me, so far. From the time mama and Katie fell sick, life had been one misery after another.But here I was. Still with breath in my lungs. And blood in my veins. And memories and voices in my heart. Good ones. And life was going on, all around me. With or without me, it was going on.It weren't a matter of the whole thing stopping or the whole thing going on. The whole thing was going on. It was only a matter of me standing up and deciding what part I had to play in it all.I could be the quitting kind. Or not. I could be the kind of man my mama and papa had raised, or not.I rose to my feet and did the best I could to scrape the worst of the mud off my coat and pants."Sarah's going to be somebody's horse," I said to myself. "And I'm sure as hell gonna make sure she's mine. "
37 " The eggs are already broken, so we may as well enjoy the omelet. "
38 " But he was always there. Trusting me. Following me. My heart burned with black tears when I thought of where he was following me to. So I stoped thinking about it. "
39 " What should a friend do? How to help, when helping and hurting are the same? "
40 " Life sucks. That's the truth. Here's what i don't get: why does everyone always try to pretend that it doesn't? "