Not on Fire, but Burning Quotes

“It's the same way people have always felt. Since the days we lived in caves and feared the violence of nature and then dreamed up the idea of gods and feared their anger and then joined together in groups and came to fear each other.”
― Greg Hrbek, Not on Fire, but Burning

“For a moment, you won't be certain what you've done. What you've done is this: You have done the best you could. On the darkest of pathways, you have managed to stay true to the better angel of your nature.”
― Greg Hrbek, Not on Fire, but Burning

“The things you loved as a boy, you want them around you when you’re an old man. The Marvins, Black River, Dreamgarden.”
― Greg Hrbek, Not on Fire, but Burning

“She can see now (the baby has shown her) that to be in the world is to be in danger; and to move through the world is to be in a constantly shifting relationship with tragedy: we avoid it by a wide margin, or we narrowly escape it, or we feel it suddenly upon us, a thing too big and fast-moving to be outrun.”
― Greg Hrbek, Not on Fire, but Burning

“Hating . . . not him exactly, but the idea of him, or the idea of people like him -- and though he has been taught to not believe in the sameness of all such persons, a logic as inborn as the structure of his DNA connect each and every one of them. . .”
― Greg Hrbek, Not on Fire, but Burning

“What they're doing down there is mourning. As millions of people across the infinitude of the grid shall always be mourning, coping with every imaginable variation of loss. Every loss deserves a telling.”
― Greg Hrbek, Not on Fire, but Burning