Touching Spirit Bear Quotes

“Whatever you do to the animals, you do to yourself.”
― Ben Mikaelsen, Touching Spirit Bear

“He turned to Edwin. "You know, the stuff you just told me makes more sense than all the weird things the counselors and psychologist have told me in school and at the detention center."

Edwin tapped Cole's shoulder with the broken stick. "That's because those people still think you can get rid of the left end of the stick.”
― Ben Mikaelsen, Touching Spirit Bear

“all my parents do is drink. They hate me. Do you know what it's like waking up every morning knowing you're not good enough? there are only two things wrong with me-everything I do and everything I say. They'll never be happy until I'm dead”
― Ben Mikaelsen, Touching Spirit Bear

“What you focus on becomes reality. Everybody carries anger inside. But also happiness. Those who focus on anger will always be angry. Those who focus on happiness will-”
― Ben Mikaelsen, Touching Spirit Bear

“Anger is a memory never forgotten. You only tame it.”
― Ben Mikaelsen, Touching Spirit Bear

“Why live if you can’t help others and make the world a better place?”
― Ben Mikaelsen, Touching Spirit Bear

“How much of the world did people miss because they were not calm enough, empty enough, to experience it?”
― Ben Mikaelsen, Touching Spirit Bear

“People change two ways --- with slow persistent pressure, or with a single and sudden traumatic experience.”
― Ben Mikaelsen, Touching Spirit Bear

“Animals can teach us more about ourselves than any teacher.”
― Ben Mikaelsen, Touching Spirit Bear

“i'm no indian!”
― Ben Mikaelsen, Touching Spirit Bear

“Happiness, like anger, is also a habit. You learn to be happy one day at a time. But habits change hard.”
― Ben Mikaelsen, Touching Spirit Bear

“Animals can teach us more about ourselves than any teacher.” He”
― Ben Mikaelsen, Touching Spirit Bear

“catching up to Edwin until they reached the trees. Edwin turned to Cole. “Nobody’s going to baby-sit you here.”
― Ben Mikaelsen, Touching Spirit Bear

“That’s how Cole felt—he didn’t owe anyone anything. Nobody had ever cared for him, so why should he care about anyone else?”
― Ben Mikaelsen, Touching Spirit Bear

“All my life I’ve been dumped on.”
― Ben Mikaelsen, Touching Spirit Bear

“Being invisible had nothing to do with being seen. Being invisible meant not being sensed or felt.”
― Ben Mikaelsen, Touching Spirit Bear

“Do you know what it’s like waking up every morning knowing you’re not good enough? There are only two things wrong with me—everything I do and everything I say. They’ll never be happy until I’m dead.”
― Ben Mikaelsen, Touching Spirit Bear

“Nobody cared about him. Nobody understood him. Nobody knew what it was like living with parents who wished he wasn’t alive.”
― Ben Mikaelsen, Touching Spirit Bear

“As the skiff motored from the bay, the fading whine of the engine floated out across the choppy waters. In the distance, Garvey waved good-bye. Cole waved back, grinning. This far away, they couldn’t see the extended middle finger he brandished at them.”
― Ben Mikaelsen, Touching Spirit Bear

“Being invisible had nothing to do with being seen. Being invisible meant not being sensed or felt”
― Ben Mikaelsen, Touching Spirit Bear

“This banishment was the ultimate hurt—worse than his father’s fists and belt, worse than his mother’s never caring. This was the hurt of being alone and unwanted.”
― Ben Mikaelsen, Touching Spirit Bear