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81 " The mountain was calling me. I had to run away. I had to. "
― Dan Gemeinhart , The Honest Truth
82 " Okay, some wolves had torn me up the night before. But then angels woke me up. "
83 " All the word was wind.Snow an cold were all around.Darkness was coming. "
84 " God, would they call his name at attendance? Would that be worse than skipping it? "
85 " Ivan, "
― Dan Gemeinhart , The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise
86 " What's a soul for if you don't use it? "
― Dan Gemeinhart , Good Dog
87 " Out of nowhere, tears came stinging into my eyes. I just wanted everyone to be happy. Lester and Tammy and Salvador and his mom and his aunt and Val and me and Rodeo. It’s hard, though, when everyone carries around a heart inside them that is so loud and so strong and so easily broken. "
88 " knowing we were going there. "
89 " Losing something can sure make you realize how much you loved it, even if you knew you loved it all along. "
90 " what-is-this-weirdo-girl-up-to expression to something "
91 " his way, "
92 " That Ivan. The first time he ever used his voice, he used it to speak up for me. 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. "
93 " Jonathan crouched on his hands and knees, panting in the blackness. He'd never seen such darkness before, total and suffocating. Down in the deepest dungeon, pinned beneath a prison of dark stone, there was hardly even the memory of light. His eyes gasped like the mouth of a fish yanked out of the water They found no light to breathe. "
― Dan Gemeinhart , Scar Island
94 " And below them, a hungry menace knocked at an ancient door. And even then, surrounded by friendly faces, his dark fears whispered at him, and the flickering warmth of their candles' light seemed terribly small and fragile. "
95 " Yeah, probably.” She looked into my eyes a second longer, then pulled something out of her shirt pocket. It was a picture. A picture of a lady who looked an awful lot like Tammy. Friendly eyes. A big, warm smile. “That’s my sister,” Tammy said. Then she added, “Charlene,” and she added it soft. “She looks nice.” “She was.” I looked up at Tammy and she looked down at me and then she said, “Let’s get this ol’ girl back on the road.” I smiled big and she smiled "
96 " Gladys, like Val and Salvador and Lester and Esperanza and Concepción, was a great addition to our troupe. "
97 " human beings try to do the right thing, if they can see what that is. "
98 " All you gave me is reasons why anybody might love her-heck why I might love her if I met her. You didn't say anything why you love her "
― Dan Gemeinhart
99 " Now I was pretty good at playing Rodeo. I'd been doing it for years. But he was a tricky bird to play. You could say that learning to play Rodeo was like learning to play a guitar, if the guitar had thirteen strings instead of six and three of them were out of tune and two of them were yarn and one of them was wired to an electric fence. He's a handful, is what I'm saying. "
100 " This feeling I'm talking about is this: It's a rising up, like you're taking flight and leaving the road behind, like you're in a moment that somehow lifts up free from the rest of your life. In that moment, wherever you just were and wherever you're about to be don't matter one little bit; just for a few breaths, you're everywhere and nowhere, and you can just feel your soul touching something big, some kind of truth that's hidden most of the time. "