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“It is important to always remember that at any time you think of it there are people being kept in buildings when they want to go outside.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“Every problem I have comes from believing something to be true that is not true.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“If you were to live your life like a prayer, every action a sort of prayer, it would be easy to believe that all your thoughts were the words of God. Perhaps they would be.”
― Peter Rock

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. He will pass an invisible boundary. Don't forget this. Don't forget that thinking can get in the way. Forget the forgetting. We seek to forget ourselves, to be surprised and to do something without knowing how or why. The way of life is wonderful. It is by abandonment.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“To let someone make you angry is always a mistake.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“Appearances count,” Father says. “When they see us riding our bikes to church, when they hear us sing and we dress up on Sunday that makes them believe certain things about us.” “Like what?” I say. “That we’re like them,” he says. “That we believe the same things. That makes them happy, to see us doing what they’re doing.”   The”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“People were never supposed to live in cities. They gathered together since they were scared and then living like that only made them more and more afraid.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“There is so much for you to do," she said. "So many places."

"How do you know?" I said.

"I can feel it," she said.”
― Peter Rock, Klickitat

“she’s a personal shopper. That means she chooses clothes for people who can’t choose their own clothes”
― Peter Rock, Klickitat

“Forget forgetting. We seek to forget ourselves, to be surprised and to do something without knowing how or why. The way of life is wonderful. It is by abandonment.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“Here in the notebooks I've let it out, I've collected all these different words. The ones in the yellow notebook, they found me, they find me still. They are the words that came from beyond, because I was ready to receive them. And then the rest of the words, these words I'm writing now--they don't feel so different, they also come through me. I listen in; I intercept them. I receive these words and send them out again, so they can reach the next person.”
― Peter Rock, Klickitat

“You can still talk with her," Iceland said. "It will take time. Everything you need to know is inside you, the same as it's inside her. You'll figure out how to talk to each other. You'll have to figure out how to listen, to understand."

"I'm listening," I said. "I will.”
― Peter Rock, Klickitat

“There is in fact coming and going, bending and breaking. One single bolt or screw holds the blades of a scissors together, into one tool that can cut paper or leather or steel or meat. If you take that screw or break that bolt, the scissors become two things. Two knives. Eyes can cut, too, back and forth. Eyes can turn outward or inward.”
― Peter Rock, Klickitat

“¿Tenía celos de mí? ¿No quería compartir a Henry o no quería compartirme a mí? ¿Él le había contado del cuaderno, de los mensajes, y tenía celos de eso?”
― Peter Rock, Klickitat

“It’s hard to stay the same while everything keeps changing around you.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“There is in fact coming and going,bending
and breaking. One single bolt or screw
holds the blades of a scissors together, into one tool that can cut paper or leather or steel or meat. If you take that screw or break that bolt, the scissors become two things. Two knives. Eyes can cut, too, back and forth. Eyes can turn outward or inward.”
― Peter Rock, Klickitat

“From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“Animals, like humans, make in life
the mistakes that will ultimately
lead to their death, either physically
or on a spiritual and emotional
level. People and animals that
stay on the same paths in life will
eventually wear themselves into ruts.
Soon the ruts become so deep that
the people can no longer see over
the sides. They see neither danger,
or beauty, only the path before
them because they fear losing their
security and are afraid to enter the
land of the unknown.”
― Peter Rock, Klickitat

“They want you to like it," Father says. "This way they can know where you are at all times.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“It’s a girls own fault if she is bored.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“This will be so much better,” Miss Jean Bauer says with her hand on my shoulder. “Caroline will be able to start school in a month and a half and get back to having a regular education like any child here in Oregon.” “Yes,”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“To be great is to keep sweetness.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“Los animales, como los humanos, cometen en la vida los errores que finalmente los conducen a la muerte, sea física, espiritual o emocional. Las personas y los animales que en la vida hacen siempre el mismo camino eventualmente harán un surco. Pronto los surcos se hacen tan profundos que las personas no pueden ver hacia los costados. No ven el peligro ni la belleza, solo el camino que tienen adelante, porque temen perder su seguridad y temen entrar en terreno desconocido.”
― Peter Rock, Klickitat

“—¿A dónde vamos? ¿Dónde está mi hermana? —No tengas miedo. —No tengo miedo.”
― Peter Rock, Klickitat

“Todos mis problemas surgen de creer cosas que sé que no son ciertas.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“None of the buildings in the town of Sisters are really more than one story tall.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“One Sometimes you’re walking through the woods when a stick leaps into the air and strikes you across the back and shoulders several times, then flies away lost in the underbrush.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“Si una avanza confiada en dirección a sus sueños, encontrará un éxito inesperado en horas ordinarias. Atravesará un límite invisible. No olviden esto. No olviden que el pensamiento puede interponerse. Olviden olvidar. Buscamos olvidarnos de nosotros mismos, sorprendernos y hacer cosas sin saber cómo ni por qué. El camino de la vida es maravilloso. Se hace de abandono.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“The other terror," he says, "the other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment