The Hermit's Story Quotes

“His errors and failures have not traveled the same distance as his successes.”
― Rick Bass, The Hermit's Story

“You can't manufacture love: you can't build it back up, like a fire. You start out with a certain amount, and then you hope it is strong enough and lasting enough to sustain itself against the hard winters, and the assaults of time.”
― Rick Bass, The Hermit's Story

“There is romantic nonsense these days about the beauty of death, about the terrible end becoming the lovely beginning, and I think that’s wrong, a diminution of the beauty of life. Death is as terrible as birth is wonderful. The laws of physics and nature—not romance—dictate this. It occurs to me that sometimes even nature—raw, silent, solemn, and joyous nature—fears, even if only slightly, rot.”
― Rick Bass, The Hermit's Story