Will Weaver > Quotes

“Sometimes I feel as if there's an explanation to my life that continues to escape me; that I've missed something noble, something sublime; that in some way I have cheated myself...life is so strange, so harsh.”
― Will Weaver, A Gravestone Made of Wheat

“She wrote that she, too, always felt an outsider "...even to myself.”
― Will Weaver

“No escape--like life itself.”
― Will Weaver

“He ran into God many times during the year: felt of him in the warm field-dirt of May; saw his face in the shiny harvest grain; heard his voice among the tops of the Norway pines.”
― Will Weaver, A Gravestone Made of Wheat: The Short Story That Inspired Sweet Land

“They honeymooned southwest of Bemidji”
― Will Weaver, Black Dirt, Bright Stars

“It’s good writing”
― Will Weaver, Power & Light

“Father and son grinned at each other.
His father took off his hat. His forehead was white, his hair
coppery.
"So how's the rat race, son?"
"Not so bad," Walter said.
His father paused a moment. "Any ... decisions yet?" his
father said.
Walter swallowed. He looked off toward town. "About ..
a major, you mean?" Walter said.
His father waited.
"Well," Walter said. His mouth went dry. He· swallowed
twice. "Well," he said, "I think I'm going to major in English."
His father pursed his lips. He pulled off his work gloves one
finger at a time. "English," he said.
"English," Walter nodded.
His father squinted. "Son, we already know English.”
― Will Weaver, A Gravestone Made of Wheat

“But we’ll get justice someday. That’s certain.”
― Will Weaver, Black Dirt, Bright Stars

“Its State Hospital”
― Will Weaver, Black Dirt, Bright Stars

“Power and light,” Dag said. “We thought it would never come.”
― Will Weaver, Power & Light

“But life never goes on all bad or all good.”
― Will Weaver, Black Dirt, Bright Stars