Susan Trott > Quotes

“Nothing lasts. Everything changes. But the changes are the same. Winter will always turn to spring.”
― Susan Trott, The Holy Man

“Only you are yours.”
― Susan Trott, The Holy Man

“Kim was, as always, utterly happy while running, in accord with nature, in harmony with the universe, in touch with the truth that was in him, full of love for all creatures even to the lowliest insect.”
― Susan Trott, The Holy Man

“Particularity leads to peculiarity and then to pathological behavior. The three Ps. It is very insidious. You would eventually end up in a box. If you try to control your environment, it will control you. And everyone else around you will always have to be making adjustments to your maddening idiosyncracies...You are beginning to enslave yourself with your fussiness.”
― Susan Trott

“I love words,” said Livvie. “I have always loved and respected words . . . since a long time ago.”
― Susan Trott, The sea serpent of Horse

“(Speaking about ponies engaging in a game of running around and chasing a ball with "imaginary riders")

Along with everything else about it, it seemed to be a parable for life. Going forwards and backwards and round in circles, striving ever forward only to have to run like crazy backwards to get the ball again, realizing that your enemy is after the same goal and you're actually helping him toward it and getting roughed up and possibly killed while you're at it but still feeling the comradeship of being in the game all together.”
― Susan Trott, The Holy Man

“We are born, we suffer, we die. However, love is a possibility for us all and, for some few, there is also a big house."

Daniel could not resist asking, because he really wanted to know. "Need they be mutually exclusive? Can't we have both love and house?"

Joe smiled. "Certainly. But one must consider carefully how one goes about getting the house.”
― Susan Trott, The Holy Man

“I liked to read about five books at a time and leave them open to my place.”
― Susan Trott, Divorcing Daddy

“I had a stack of books of fabulous contemporary writers who'd left their roots and who seemed invigorated thereby. Isabel Allende from Chile to California, Clarice Lispector from Russian to Brazil, Haruki Murakami from Japan to Italy, Kazuo Ishiguro from Japan to England. I knew I wasn't going back to New England, that I'd found my real homeland. North California was where my characters wanted to be.”
― Susan Trott

“The Bodhisattva says he will do wrong to stop wrongdoing. . . . He will kill to stop killing. As an exception. He calls it 'doing surgery, not violence.' You remove the one killer to stop many killings.”
― Susan Trott, The Exception