Bill Roorbach > Quotes

“Will you marry me?" he said.
"We're married," I said.
"So marry me even more?”
― Bill Roorbach, Lucky Turtle

“I remember that night as a scent, smoke first , then Montana sagebrush, that distant but forever threat of autumn in the air, and a passion caught in that scent, just a feeling that still wells up in me when I smell anything remotely like it, all of us purely alive and it up by the fire like fresh devils in the dark.”
― Bill Roorbach, Lucky Turtle

“The animal collapsed to her front knees, then to one side, the spear holding her half upright as - beautiful creature built from mountains and valleys and brooks and wildflower meadows and sky - she became wind.”
― Bill Roorbach, Lucky Turtle

“It's all written out, you know. Everything is fate. All written out in Heaven, or written out in Hell.”
― Bill Roorbach, Life Among Giants

“The authorities aren't always up to the job.”
― Bill Roorbach, Life Among Giants

“had to look back before you moved forward.”
― Bill Roorbach, The Remedy for Love: A Novel

“couch, in point of fact.”
― Bill Roorbach, The Remedy for Love: A Novel