Killing Maine Quotes

“Then I remembered how she was - fiery, ruthless, smart, and despite herself very caring, not a person who hurts anyone.”
― Mike Bond, Killing Maine

“Wind blew snow crystals back and forth between the graves. The ancient pines creaked overhead.”
― Mike Bond, Killing Maine

“A moment of peace and silence, breathing in and out the frigid air, watching daylight seep into the forest, hearing the first chatter of distant crows, the wind sighing over the snow and through the fir and pine branches and the twittering of chickadees as they flitted in little tribes from tree to tree.”
― Mike Bond, Killing Maine

“Though at opposite ends of our country, Maine and Hawaii are, other than climate, much alike. Places where you say who you are, be who you are, keep your word, and don't cheat or lie to take advantage of each other. Where you protect other folks because they are your tribe.”
― Mike Bond, Killing Maine

“We sat bathed in luscious darkness, Casco Bay's thousand islands spread out before us like a diamond quilt. 'I don't get enough of this,' she said.”
― Mike Bond, Killing Maine

“Once you don’t give a damn how dirty things are, I realized happily, how easy life becomes.”
― Mike Bond, Killing Maine

“His neighbor Ambrosio was the kind of guy you could depend on when you needed to die.”
― Mike Bond, Killing Maine

“a sense of peace, hopefulness, loneliness and danger.”
― Mike Bond, Killing Maine

“seeing the two of them with their calm kindly recognition of each other that masked a connection so deep you could hang your clothes on it,”
― Mike Bond, Killing Maine

“It’s the lovely glue that holds us together, it’s warm, it’s profound … the secret of life, the gift of progeny and the gift of the soul −”
― Mike Bond, Killing Maine

“Numbed by the hope it would never come. That we could lose ourselves forever in this loving sexual bliss, this endless intense investigation of each other’s feelings, minds and bodies.”
― Mike Bond, Killing Maine

“Good sex gives you a deep connection to the world, makes you love beauty.”
― Mike Bond, Killing Maine

“NO TWO OCEAN WAVES are ever the same. I’ve sat for years on my surfboard waiting for the next good one, and never have two been the same. Nothing’s ever the same: no two same faces, voices, universes or grains of sand.”
― Mike Bond, Killing Maine

“She stirred and spoke in her sleep, her voice deep like humming wires, soft like moss and warm like rain, and I knew that yes I loved her but didn’t understand why it brought me such despair.”
― Mike Bond, Killing Maine

“It was so heartbreaking to realize how often things like that do happen, how often ardent love is quenched by death.”
― Mike Bond, Killing Maine

“we’re dropped into this universe that goes on forever and we don’t know where we come from or really what we are, if we’re here just for the transit or if something comes after.”
― Mike Bond, Killing Maine

“away from light into darkness. And in the sea’s vast horizon see the curvature of the earth, and sense the sun’s distance and how huge it is compared to our tiny home. Two hundred yards beyond the beach a mother whale”
― Mike Bond, Killing Maine

“Grail’s lance and sacred chalice in which life is created and nurtured to birth. And which we degrade with pornography, advertising, religion and shame.”
― Mike Bond, Killing Maine

“Lexie explained how two Maine governors and a bunch of legislators and “environmental” groups that were taking big money from industrial wind companies joined up to pass a bill permitting industrial wind projects to be built all over Maine without valid environmental studies and with no way for local folks to stop them.”
― Mike Bond, Killing Maine

“screamed night and day, blotted out the starlit skies and Northern Lights with flashing red strobes, slaughtered thousands of bats and entire flocks of birds, banished tourism and wildlife, made people sick and drove them from their now-valueless homes. But though there was very little wind and the turbines made almost no electricity, they made billions in taxpayer-paid subsidies for energy companies and investment banks, some of which trickled down to their fully-owned politicians and “environmental” groups. As I’d learned in previous dealings with WindPower LLC, these turbines did absolutely nothing for global warming. Because wind is so erratic, wind projects must have fulltime fossil fuel plants to back them up, and the result is that wind projects often cause more coal-burning, not less. And the saddest thing is that these billions of dollars wasted on industrial wind projects could be spent on rooftop solar, substantially reducing CO2 generation and fossil fuel use. But the utilities hate rooftop solar, despite what they pretend, because it cuts their income, so they are avidly trying to curtail it.”
― Mike Bond, Killing Maine

“She was at the same table near the back where three nights ago I'd sat entranced by her songs. And where the two of us had talked like old friends.”
― Mike Bond, Killing Maine

“These steel monstrosities screamed night and day, blotted out the starlit skies and Northern Lights with flashing red strobes, slaughtered thousands of bats and entire flocks of birds banished tourism and wildlife, made people sick and drove them from their now-valueless homes.”
― Mike Bond, Killing Maine