The Guide Quotes

“Listo beasto,”
― Peter Heller, The Guide

“...the flies contain the ingenuity and craft of fine jewelry and the promise of hours, days, in pursuit of something even more beautiful: a connection to the beating heart of the living earth and maybe to one's own mastery.”
― Peter Heller, The Guide

“More than that, he thought she had a certain bravery he rarely encountered and couldn't define: it was something to do with a willingness to look beyond the surface of things, into their heart, and he wondered if that was an essential part of being an artist. It was more than just curiosity, it seemed to him she was restless for truth somehow.”
― Peter Heller, The Guide

“he thought he could sit on this deck and watch that stream for the rest of his life.”
― Peter Heller, The Guide

“Jack knew that what Lloyd meant was more than a warrior’s creed, it was a reminder that we are entrusted with certain souls, and that we are beholden in a broader sense, as people, to take care of others.”
― Peter Heller, The Guide

“What he’d noticed in all true masters was that the focus turned soon, or immediately, into full absorption by the act itself.”
― Peter Heller, The Guide

“God, the names. You could almost walk into the words themselves.” Now Jack put down his cup. He’d never heard anyone say that and it was true. For a moment he lost the blithe tempo of their conversation that had shielded him from his own shyness.”
― Peter Heller, The Guide

“A fire was good company.”
― Peter Heller, The Guide

“he thought, or felt, that dying among a band of brothers, or within one’s tribe, was better than trying to get to a lifeboat alone.”
― Peter Heller, The Guide

“It was not as if they lived, exactly, but maybe they were not lost forever to the great dark. That they endured in the weather and the seasons.”
― Peter Heller, The Guide

“People need people, more than any other being needs any other being, and Jack thought as he sifted the remnants of the nightmare that the need makes us particularly vulnerable.”
― Peter Heller, The Guide

“was more than a warrior’s creed, it was a reminder that we are entrusted with certain souls, and that we are beholden in a broader sense, as people, to take care of others.”
― Peter Heller, The Guide

“The way things ought to be. A turning of seasons and a natural acceptance of life pulling back and many things passing. There was a kind of relief in that, and a sharp beauty. Whose power had much to do with one's ability to hold the losses it augured.”
― Peter Heller, The Guide

“There were curtains of night gray that curved against the wind and in them it was almost as if he could see the lives of his mother and of his best friend, their spirits, coming to him. It was not as if they lived, exactly, but maybe they were not lost forever to the great dark.”
― Peter Heller, The Guide

“What is evil? What do you think it is?

She didn't think for more than a second. She tossed her loose gray hair off the side of her face and said, "Impediment to Being.”
― Peter Heller, The Guide

“What he'd noticed in all true masters was that the focus turned soon, or immediately, into full absorption by the act itself. The actor surrendered, and it was as if, like a change in tide, the energy was now flowing in the opposite direction-from the river, or the basketball court, or the painting. Flowing into the one who was doing. It swept her up and carried her. It fueled her, and in the most intense moments allowed her to relax”
― Peter Heller, The Guide

“He had learned that it was much less a distraction than a form of connection: of connecting to the best part of himself, and to a discipline that demanded he stay open to every sense, to the nuances of the season and to the instrument of his own body, his own agility or fatigue.”
― Peter Heller, The Guide

“He was not surprised that a tear hit the page, nor that he spread it on the paper with his thumb as he had before.”
― Peter Heller, The Guide

“And a spiderweb’s gleamings in the exposed roots of a cut bank. And in a tailwater pool: the spreading rings of rising trout, dapping silently like slow rain.”
― Peter Heller, The Guide

“Wynn’s loss reverberated and was swept up into the more pervasive loss of his mother just as the sound of the stream rose up and was scattered by the wind in these pines.”
― Peter Heller, The Guide