Be With Quotes

“Dear spider, in
this house eight
legs are too many.”
― Forrest Gander, Be With

“And then smelling it,
feeling it before
the sound even reaches
him, he kneels at
cliff’s edge and for the
first time, turns his
head toward the now
visible falls that
gush over a quarter-
mile of uplifted sheet-
granite across the valley
and he pauses,
lowering his eyes
for a moment, unable
to withstand the
tranquility—vast, unencumbered,
terrifying, and primal.”
― Forrest Gander, Be With

“Is there nightshade
in my brain? That
I conceive
your consequence
as some stage in
my need?”
― Forrest Gander, Be With

“You find
yourself in another
world you weren’t
looking for where
what you see is that
you have always been
the wolves
at the door. Left

ajar, gaping, your own
door.”
― Forrest Gander, Be With

“The break-hard
determination to
be a good person,
what happened
to that? How
is it true
I have to
go now? She's lost
my name, but the
occasion of my
presence begs
more. Who is my
mother now I am
unspoken for?”
― Forrest Gander, Be With

“At which point I grew old and it was like ripping open the beehive with my hands again.

At which point I conceived a realm more real than life.

At which point there was at least some possibility.

Some possibility, in which I didn’t believe, of being with her once more.”
― Forrest Gander, Be With

“At which point my grief-sounds ricocheted outside of language.

Something like a drifting swarm of bees.

At which point in the tetric silence that followed

I was swarmed by those bees and lost consciousness.

At which point there was no way out for me either.”
― Forrest Gander, Be With