Beartooth Quotes

“He and Sacajawea sometimes sat at the kitchen table and didn’t say much. He no longer left rooms when she entered them. It was whatever it was. Life’s too short”
― Callan Wink, Beartooth

“that life can pass you by but having a family is how you make positive the passage of time, how you add resonance to your years.”
― Callan Wink, Beartooth

“He said that, as far as he knew, 100 percent of the folks who died preferred to stay that way. Death had a perfect record. Not one unhappy customer. It couldn’t be that bad.”
― Callan Wink, Beartooth

“You’d think that the state of motherhood would come with a certain understanding of the world and your place in it. But it doesn’t. It doesn’t. Motherhood conveys responsibility. It conveys a certain ache. It doesn’t grant knowledge.”
― Callan Wink, Beartooth

“He made another pot of coffee, and when it was done brewing the kitchen was quiet. He was alone there, and he figured that was how it would be for a long while. He realized for the first time that acute aloneness has something of a presence. His lonely was dark as a shadow, and it sat there drinking coffee with him, a silent companion.”
― Callan Wink, Beartooth

“At her age the balance must shift, the weight of memory gathering mass until each waking day was more of a waking dream huanted by the shades of people you'd known who were a long time gone.”
― Callan Wink, Beartooth

“100 percent of the folks who died preferred to stay that way. Death had a perfect record. Not one unhappy customer. It couldn’t be that bad.”
― Callan Wink, Beartooth

“At her age the balance must shift, the weight of memory gathering mass until each waking day was more of a waking dream haunted by the shades of people you'd known who were a long time gone.”
― Callan Wink, Beartooth