One Last Lie Quotes

“I thought about how every border on earth is a man-made fiction. The birds are never fooled.”
― Paul Doiron, One Last Lie

“I could tell it needled him that I could cast all ninety feet of my fly line and into the backing. He kept trying to muscle his line out farther and farther, which is the surest way to sabotage your casts.”
― Paul Doiron, One Last Lie

“He pointed the barrel at me from a distance of five yards. I heard the shot just before I dove into the lake.”
― Paul Doiron, One Last Lie

“Aging is one of those things you can’t explain to people,” she said, “no matter how hard you try. They need to go through it themselves.”
― Paul Doiron, One Last Lie

“I had no doubt that Charley Stevens would continue to teach me life lessons, but only small boys and fools worship other men. The point in life is to find heroism in yourself.”
― Paul Doiron, One Last Lie

“The ink had run, but I was able to read the words to him:
"'In battle, in the forest, at the precipice in the mountains, on the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows, In sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame, The good deeds a man has done before defend him.'
Ora says that's a quote from Bhagavad Gita." "I got it out of a biography on Robert J. Oppenheimer." he said, almost without embarrassment. "The head of the Manhattan Project. It was a favorite verse of his. I figured the man who brought the atom bomb into the world knew more about shame and self-doubt then most people.”
― Paul Doiron, One Last Lie

“My younger self had believed fiercely in the idea that we can never truly know another human being, that we are solipsistic creatures doomed to brief, lonely existences. Experience had taught me that we can only escape our private prisons by trusting and giving ourselves to others. Now, for the first time in years, I found myself seeing the face of someone I loved in my mind's eye and wondering about the stranger behind the mask.”
― Paul Doiron, One Last Lie