Paper Targets Quotes

“But someone who has been busted broke, if they can take care of themselves from that point, they act different. They build their own fires.”
― Steve S. Saroff, Paper Targets: Art Can Be Murder

“I threw both my phones in, one after the other. The splashing sounds they made in the dark were like two trout rising for stoneflies. Trout that sleep in the eddies behind round river boulders. Trout that wake up at dawn and hide all day by pretending to be shadows.”
― Steve S. Saroff, Paper Targets: Art Can Be Murder

“I found the West and nights in bunkhouses, with the sounds of men coughing and drunks talking in their sleep. I found filthy motel rooms with stains on the walls and the forever miles of highways and roads. But I also found the sky, the rivers, and the wind, and I knew that the rooms were only for sleep, that the work was to be able to keep moving. Cities collect the runaways who are afraid of openness. The towns in the West collect the runaways who are afraid of not being able to keep leaving.”
― Steve Saroff

“Freedom from ambition with the sky opening ahead. True wealth.”
― Steve Saroff

“The towns in the West collect the runaways who are afraid of not being able to keep leaving.”
― Steve Saroff

“Is it wrong to hold onto the sparks even if they still burn?”
― Steve Saroff