Wilderness Quotes

“It knew these things the same way a dog knows well the heart of the man it loves and understands it in better ways than the man could ever hope.”
― Lance Weller, Wilderness

“Able closed his eyes. He was running. The grass was green with spring and fragrant, knee-high and cushioning his steps. And there was sun and a warm wind blew. Men called to him from the trees just atop the rise. He ran. He ran to them.”
― Lance Weller, Wilderness

“This is what men must do. Their true job."

"What's that?"

"Take responsibility for what's theirs and let go the rest."

"Seems the trick, then, is figuring out what you can safely let go.”
― Lance Weller, Wilderness

“I'm American. Like I told you. And I'm American and not something else because they failed that day. They couldn't do it and most of them probably knew they couldn't do it before they even started, but they went anyhow. There's honor in that. I don't reckon there's much honor left in the world now, but they had it that day and I honor them on both sides by knowing what I can about it. Much as I can.”
― Lance Weller, Wilderness

“Oyster Tom said that they were not talking about people but about men. He agreed that most men remain accountable to themselves only, and that but poorly. He said that the proper chore of a man is to be chargeable for those and that dear to him and that this was something women understood and knew how to do without being told. It was a thing women looked for in their men, and this was why most women lived lives of bottomless sorrow.”
― Lance Weller, Wilderness

“He did not speak and he did not tremble because he came to the quick realization that this thing, this scene, was only one in a long and mighty chain of events he felt rather than saw stretching so far along the arc of his life he figured the end must meet itself somewhere again to forge a perfect circle of misfortune.”
― Lance Weller, Wilderness

“This is what men must do. Their true job.” “What’s that?” “Take responsibility for what’s theirs and let go the rest.”
― Lance Weller, Wilderness

“How the mind works, by what strange paths it pursues memory.”
― Lance Weller, Wilderness