The All of It Quotes

“One thing I've learned, Father--that in this life it's best to keep the then and the now and the what's-to-be as close together in your thoughts as you can. It's when you let gaps creep in, when you separate out the intervals and dwell on them, that you can't bear the sorrow.”
― Jeannette Haien, The All of It

“in this life it’s best to keep the then and the now and the what’s-to-be as close together in your thoughts as you can. It’s when you let gaps creep in, when you separate out the intervals and dwell on them, that you can’t bear the sorrow.”
― Jeannette Haien, The All of It

“Discordantly—out of the mists—he heard her voice: “Dead faces,” she said whitely, “they’re all the same. . . . They don’t, I mean, tell of the person as they were alive.”
― Jeannette Haien, The All of It

“Discordantly—out of the mists—he heard her voice: “Dead faces,” she said whitely, “they’re all the same…. They don’t, I mean, tell of the person as they were alive.”
― Jeannette Haien, The All of It

“Every aspect of every minute of the day--rain without surcease spilling out of the black and liquid sky; sloughed, fierce sweeps of wind; the swollen, silt-ridden, ever-swiftening river; the torturing midges; the ghostly mists like amorphous shifts of sorrow--all had acted in perfect scheme to chasten desire. Nought, though, can ever fully dry the angler's heart of it.”
― Jeannette Haien, The All of It