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1 " Just because you're done with the past doesn't mean the past is done with you. "
― Paul Doiron , The Bone Orchard (Mike Bowditch, #5)
2 " Just because a man is a hermit doesn't mean he's hiding. "
― Paul Doiron , The Caretaker (Mike Bowditch #11.5)
3 " You can't tell by the look of a frog how far they'll jump. "
― Paul Doiron , Trespasser (Mike Bowditch, #2)
4 " Nature will forgive humankind just about anything, and what it won’t forgive I hope never to witness. "
― Paul Doiron , The Poacher's Son (Mike Bowditch, #1)
5 " In my life, I had heard hundreds of coyotes and even more dogs, but never anything like this except in television shows. Wolves had been extirpated from the Northeast more than a century ago. Never in my life had I expected to hear them howling in the wild mountains of New England. ((c) 2016, p 239) "
― Paul Doiron , Widowmaker (Mike Bowditch, #7)
6 " You never really know someone until your relationship with them is over. "
7 " People disappoint you so often. I hardly knew how to react when they surpassed all your hopes. "
8 " Desperate times call for hopeful measures. "
9 " Living in the woods does strange things to lonely men. "
― Paul Doiron
10 " I was raised Catholic. Guilt is my resting state. "
11 " No scientific proof can make someone stop hating something if their hatred gives them pleasure. "
― Paul Doiron , The Precipice (Mike Bowditch, #6)
12 " Angels do not whisper in our ears. Predestination is a fairy tale, a bedtime story for adults scared of meaningless death. "
13 " She wore a nightgown that revealed cleavage deep enough to hide a kitten. "
14 " I choke out river water, take the biggest breath I have ever taken, and look up at snowflakes blowing like feathers across the sky. "
― Paul Doiron , Dead by Dawn (Mike Bowditch #12)
15 " 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. "
― Paul Doiron , One Last Lie (Mike Bowditch, #11)
16 " In Maine, you were a fool if you put away your snow shovel before Mother’s Day. "
17 " 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. "
18 " …ultimately we all deserve the hand we’re dealt. "
19 " And with that he tossed another birch log into the stove and said good night. "
20 " No bed with a dog in it is ever cold or lonely. "
