Brock Meier > Quotes

“We made our home on the wind, between sand and stars.”
― Brock Meier, The Stone Cutter: A novel of Petra In Ancient Arabia

“Can one be lost, when no destination awaits? When no home longs for one’s return?”
― Brock Meier, The Stone Cutter: A novel of Petra In Ancient Arabia

“The story…travels wheresoever the truth shepherds it. It possesses no rudder that I might lay my hand upon, to guide it wherever I choose. I am at its mercy”
― Brock Meier, The Stone Cutter: A novel of Petra In Ancient Arabia

“To produce a masterpiece requires grand ideas, unswerving commitment to the dream, years of sweat and pain…Such beauty does not come cheaply.”
― Brock Meier, The Stone Cutter: A novel of Petra In Ancient Arabia

“The story entangled itself in the substance of his heart, like the roots of a cedar of Lebanon in the heart of the earth. He wondered if he would ever pry it loose.”
― Brock Meier, The Stone Cutter: A novel of Petra In Ancient Arabia

“At last, everything comes to its own end…All things must die. The heavens will be rolled up like a scroll, and time itself will be closed like a tomb.”
― Brock Meier, The Stone Cutter: A novel of Petra In Ancient Arabia

“I do have a single tale. It is a story of love found and love lost – of ambition and madness – of paradise and torment.”
― Brock Meier, The Stone Cutter: A novel of Petra In Ancient Arabia

“As the boy stood on the narrow platform of the top of the world—the flat, white stone below his feet, the blue sky above, and Dhushara’s mountains to the far north—the scene appeared to him as of another world. But how else would it appear, when standing on the doorstep of the gods?”
― Brock Meier

“Some might be swayed by clever answers, but true accomplishments will always outweigh cunning.”
― Brock Meier, The Stone Cutter: A novel of Petra In Ancient Arabia

“For any story to be worth the telling—or the hearing—it must spring from the truth. If not, it is nothing more than the final flow of the Yorden, as its fresh waters are swallowed up in the undrinkable tears of the Salt Sea.”
― Brock Meier, The Stone Cutter: A novel of Petra In Ancient Arabia

“this story…seems only good for the breaking of one’s heart. Can you not add a little honey, to sweeten it for our ears?”
― Brock Meier, The Stone Cutter: A novel of Petra In Ancient Arabia

“Yes, I have certainly seen and heard much. But there were not many heroes. We men are a flawed and rebellious herd. Our aspirations are lofty, but our doing is mired deep in the troubles of our own muddy mess.”
― Brock Meier, The Stone Cutter: A novel of Petra In Ancient Arabia