The Shadow Catcher Quotes

“You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes.”
― Marianne Wiggins, The Shadow Catcher

“...to make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger.”
― Marianne Wiggins, The Shadow Catcher

“You speak your mind, don't you...? A rare find in a woman.”
― Marianne Wiggins, The Shadow Catcher

“There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same--fleeting and unknowable--for every one of us. I lived.”
― Marianne Wiggins, The Shadow Catcher

“Art, their father had frequently told them, was exactly that: to make art is the realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel with and for a stranger.”
― Marianne Wiggins, The Shadow Catcher

“Before the Train, the grasslands teamed with herds of buffalo, so thick and mythic in their numbers, it was said that when they ran, they ran as thunder raining on the earth. The men who hunted them could hear them coming miles away, could feel the ground around them shake and rumble with their roar, as they barreled past, and maybe that's the sound I think I hear inside a train, the sound of animals, a sound the living earth once made, a plaint, the sound of history’s demand to be remembered.”
― Marianne Wiggins, The Shadow Catcher

“...when the daily reality presents itself as uncomprehendable, we fashion our own myths and then hold those phony truths to be inalienable.”
― Marianne Wiggins, The Shadow Catcher

“...a novelist...we dream non-living characters and animate them with out words...”
― Marianne Wiggins, The Shadow Catcher