Paul Doiron > Quotes

“You never really know someone until your relationship with them is over.”
― Paul Doiron, Trespasser

“Just because you're done with the past doesn't mean the past is done with you.”
― Paul Doiron, The Bone Orchard

“People disappoint you so often. I hardly knew how to react when they surpassed all your hopes.”
― Paul Doiron, The Poacher's Son

“Living in the woods does strange things to lonely men.”
― Paul Doiron

“Desperate times call for hopeful measures.”
― Paul Doiron, Trespasser

“Nature will forgive humankind just about anything, and what it won’t forgive I hope never to witness.”
― Paul Doiron, The Poacher's Son

“She wore a nightgown that revealed cleavage deep enough to hide a kitten.”
― Paul Doiron, The Precipice

“I was raised Catholic. Guilt is my resting state.”
― Paul Doiron, Widowmaker

“No scientific proof can make someone stop hating something if their hatred gives them pleasure.”
― Paul Doiron, The Precipice

“Angels do not whisper in our ears. Predestination is a fairy tale, a bedtime story for adults scared of meaningless death.”
― Paul Doiron, Trespasser

“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

“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.”
― Paul Doiron, Widowmaker

“No bed with a dog in it is ever cold or lonely.”
― Paul Doiron, Widowmaker

“I thought about how every border on earth is a man-made fiction. The birds are never fooled.”
― Paul Doiron, One Last Lie

“And with that he tossed another birch log into the stove and said good night.”
― Paul Doiron, Widowmaker

“In Maine, you were a fool if you put away your snow shovel before Mother’s Day.”
― Paul Doiron, Trespasser

“Just because a man is a hermit doesn't mean he's hiding.”
― Paul Doiron, The Caretaker

“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

“He pointed the barrel at me from a distance of five yards. I heard the shot just before I dove into the lake.”
― Paul Doiron, One Last Lie

“I fondly recall the magical time, two minutes earlier, when hypothermia was my major concern in life. I keep pressing my hand against my thigh.”
― Paul Doiron, Dead by Dawn

“…ultimately we all deserve the hand we’re dealt.”
― Paul Doiron, Trespasser

“was grateful she’d dragged herself out of her sickbed to help me.”
― Paul Doiron, Widowmaker

“The ink had run, but I was able to read the words to him:
"'In battle, in the forest, at the precipice in the mountains, on the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows, In sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame, The good deeds a man has done before defend him.'
Ora says that's a quote from Bhagavad Gita." "I got it out of a biography on Robert J. Oppenheimer." he said, almost without embarrassment. "The head of the Manhattan Project. It was a favorite verse of his. I figured the man who brought the atom bomb into the world knew more about shame and self-doubt then most people.”
― Paul Doiron, One Last Lie

“Charley had the sense that they came from urban neighborhoods where the term crime wave didn’t provoke smiles. He felt slightly sorry for these frightened city people who carried their fear like so much overweight luggage.”
― Paul Doiron, Skin and Bones: And Other Mike Bowditch Short Stories

“Pulsifer’s ill temper seemed to be rising from its cobra basket again.”
― Paul Doiron, Widowmaker

“About six weeks later, after the holidays had come and gone, I got word from the Marblehead Massachusetts Police Department. Dr. Philip Stoddard has shot himself in his study.”
― Paul Doiron, Backtrack

“Aging is one of those things you can’t explain to people,” she said, “no matter how hard you try. They need to go through it themselves.”
― Paul Doiron, One Last Lie

“Most of the people I investigated had the brainpower of an opossum. It had been ages since I was confronted by a criminal whose practical intelligence scared me. Mark Redmond scared me.”
― Paul Doiron, Pitch Dark

“If you lose control of yourself, you lose control of the situation.”
― Paul Doiron, Bad Little Falls

“I stormed out of the office when Graham said he didn’t want me coughing and sneezing on everyone again.”
― Paul Doiron, Widowmaker