The Whistling Season Quotes

“Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.”
― Ivan Doig, The Whistling Season

“My books already threatened to take over my part of the room and keep on going . . . whatever cargoes of words I could lay my hands on I gave safe harbor.”
― Ivan Doig, The Whistling Season

“What scrunched under our overshoes as we trudged through the stubble of the grainfield was the nasty mix of moistureless snow and windblown dirt that we called “snirt.”
― Ivan Doig, The Whistling Season: A Historical Literary Novel That Celebrates Joy and Beauty in 1909 Montana

“that whole fussy room still carried an atmosphere of having been crocheted into existence rather than carpentered.”
― Ivan Doig, The Whistling Season: A Historical Literary Novel That Celebrates Joy and Beauty in 1909 Montana

“Provider of moonbeams when I wanted full illumination.”
― Ivan Doig, The Whistling Season

“Nightly awaits that sweet address
Principality of Sleep
Happy Land of Forgetfullness”
― Ivan Doig, The Whistling Season

“If I have learned anything in a lifetime spent overseeing schools, it is that childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.”
― Ivan Doig, The Whistling Season: A Historical Literary Novel That Celebrates Joy and Beauty in 1909 Montana

“Latin was not a hard topic at all compared to romance, from what I could see.”
― Ivan Doig, The Whistling Season: A Historical Literary Novel That Celebrates Joy and Beauty in 1909 Montana

“The circumference of love depends on the angle you see it from, I learned in the course of that madcap week after Father proposed to Rose.”
― Ivan Doig, The Whistling Season: A Historical Literary Novel That Celebrates Joy and Beauty in 1909 Montana

“What does it take to empty the head of what you don't there?”
― Ivan Doig, The Whistling Season

“Even when it stands vacant the past is never empty. In these last minutes here, in this house with its kitchen doorway that overheard so many whispered confidences, with its calendar that holds onto Octobers forever, something has found its way into a corner of my mind. A”
― Ivan Doig, The Whistling Season: A Historical Literary Novel That Celebrates Joy and Beauty in 1909 Montana

“I still say, the back of a running horse is the most wonderful place to be when you are the age Damon and I were then. Under me Joker’s mane flew in the wind, flag of its breed, as I bent low over his neck. Stride by stride with us,”
― Ivan Doig, The Whistling Season: A Historical Literary Novel That Celebrates Joy and Beauty in 1909 Montana

“Life lays its burden on every soul’s shoulder,
We each have a cross or a trial to bear.”
― Ivan Doig, The Whistling Season: A Historical Literary Novel That Celebrates Joy and Beauty in 1909 Montana

“Yet, Experience spake,
the old ways are best;
steadfast for steadfast’s sake,
passing the eons’ test.”
― Ivan Doig, The Whistling Season: A Historical Literary Novel That Celebrates Joy and Beauty in 1909 Montana

“EVEN WHEN IT STANDS VACANT THE PAST IS NEVER EMPTY.”
― Ivan Doig, The Whistling Season: A Historical Literary Novel That Celebrates Joy and Beauty in 1909 Montana

“Habits of a lifetime were a lot to be sawed through by a wedding ring. At the betrothal news Morrie had declared gallantly “I would not want to yield her to anyone but you, Oliver.”
― Ivan Doig, The Whistling Season: A Historical Literary Novel That Celebrates Joy and Beauty in 1909 Montana

“Habits of a lifetime were a lot to be sawed through by a wedding ring.”
― Ivan Doig, The Whistling Season: A Historical Literary Novel That Celebrates Joy and Beauty in 1909 Montana

“As I mounted the stairs, my lips silently tried out the two words “contrary warrior” together.”
― Ivan Doig, The Whistling Season: A Historical Literary Novel That Celebrates Joy and Beauty in 1909 Montana