Ruin Quotes

“Walking back up the hill to Francy's empty house, I realize Robert must be discreetly glad that Frank the pathetically lost man is now leaving him alone awhile. Robert has enough sadness in his own lonely separate peace. A godly man with no God fit to purpose”
― Leigh Seippel, Ruin: A Novel of Flyfishing in Bankruptcy

“I had replaced literature with financial fictions. And turned further up to that conclusive moment in my and Francy's bankruptcy trial that I should have remembered from Yale the questioning irony an astute reader brings to a complex novel”
― Leigh Seippel, Ruin: A Novel of Flyfishing in Bankruptcy

“No matter. It is Francy, only Francy, I want to haunt me. Beg her to now. As I should have far better begged her in life. I spoke too lightly to her depth in my shallowness”
― Leigh Seippel, Ruin: A Novel of Flyfishing in Bankruptcy

“Francy was out of the water when I arrived. Laid out on gravel wet as only the drowned can be. Nobody had had the nerve to close those clear eyes, those parted lips graying already”
― Leigh Seippel, Ruin: A Novel of Flyfishing in Bankruptcy

“Commandments. Those rules are simple and they guide to the right thing. But people forget. With all the distractions of evil around them. We need to go back into living and dying by the Commandments because they keep us out of trouble”
― Leigh Seippel, Ruin: A Novel of Flyfishing in Bankruptcy

“The problem that is me started back when I was still a boy. I loved literature more than math plain as that. And so I began down a long tangled lane led by useless masters of useless words. That is apparent to me looking back. Too many years of dreaming others' dreams made my character's biggest flaw. Leading to two and a half Yale degrees and then boneheaded business misjudgements”
― Leigh Seippel, Ruin: A Novel of Flyfishing in Bankruptcy

“Revenance is life's provenance”
― Leigh Seippel, Ruin: A Novel of Flyfishing in Bankruptcy