Joseph Jackson > Quotes

“These are the stones that become diamonds, the plans that don’t pan out but become something else, something better. Eventually they stack up and form a season—a season just like this one—and then before you know it those seasons pile up to become a life, and one worth remembering.”
― Joseph Jackson, It's Only Fishing

“Watching sockeyes flow upriver like spilled paint has to be one of the most quintessential Alaskan things you can do (short of watching northern lights or riding in a dog sled, maybe), and I could’ve sat there and done it all day if there weren’t more streams to fish.”
― Joseph Jackson, It's Only Fishing

“Then one day it happens. You feel the change, usually before you see it. Light receptors in the buried recesses of our brains sense the shifting angular quality of sunlight, our inner ears throb under new barometric pressures, and our collective psyche takes on an urgency that we can’t explain. The forest turns dark and bare, the streams thin, the coyote’s mangy summer coat grows thick as a mop, and we see reflections everywhere in a desperate land hanging on for dear life.”
― Joseph Jackson, It's Only Fishing

“These are the stones that become diamonds, the plans that don’t pan out but become something else, something better. Eventually they stack up and form a season—a season just like this one—and then before you know it those seasons pile up to become a life, and one worth remembering. I”
― Joseph Jackson, It's Only Fishing

“Everything seemed restless, like campers too cold to sleep, like a tangle of life when there’s so much to do that you do nothing at all. Soon the entire place will freeze solid. Snow will fall, stick, and bury; marten and ermine tracks will crisscross the country. Ravens will croak from the tip-tops of spruce trees, and in a vast stadium of forty-below the sound will echo for miles.”
― Joseph Jackson, It's Only Fishing