Where The Green Star Falls Quotes

“This is the truth of the human experience, that any joy bought can be taken away, or will soon enough break or wear into uselessness. But natural joy, seeded and grown will replenish itself over and again.”
― William Jack Stephens, Where The Green Star Falls

“Joy is a living thing that is seeded and grows, and spreads to other fields as the windblown weed.”
― William Jack Stephens, Where The Green Star Falls

“His greatest mistake was believing that wealth would make him a part of that world. That it would fundamentally change him into someone else. He knew what it was like to be hungry. To wear clothes until they withered and fell from his body. To collect the scraps and trash from other people's lives and view it as a treasure. He saw money as the only barrier between what they were, and what he was not.”
― William Jack Stephens, Where The Green Star Falls

“The smallest of gestures that slip through the fingers like grains of sand and are lost forever. It’s the great lie that haunts us later when those grains turn to regrets. The lie that blames time when there is always time; but it’s conscious choice that allows the grains to fall from our grasp.”
― William Jack Stephens, Where The Green Star Falls

“The burden of the living as they mourn the lost is being forever consumed by the things never said, the things never done, and all of the things that will never be.”
― William Jack Stephens, Where The Green Star Falls

“Why did you do this!? I hate you, I hate you, I hate you!" He had to hate someone right now, and God is always where a man turns to expel his rage when he's alone in the world.”
― William Jack Stephens, Where The Green Star Falls

“He sat there motionless, unable to speak, or cry, or think. His body felt paralyzed and all he could hear was a high pitched ringing in his ears as the sun fell below the mountain tops.”
― William Jack Stephens, Where The Green Star Falls

“He carried himself with a confident stroll, but not the kind of confidence that seeps from a man who has done and seen and made his own way. That's the kind of man who walks his path with no need of his voice to tell the world who he is, because the world sees him coming plainly enough, and it knows him.”
― William Jack Stephens, Where The Green Star Falls