Dan Groat Books & Quotes

Source: Monarchs and Mendicants

“A silence overtook the odd family in their odd surroundings as loss became the mockery of the moment, and they were caught up in the emotional release that is common in a theater audience after the sudden ending of a tragic movie; the curtain closes and the people are still in their seats, numb and sighing their way back into reality.”

Emotion Silence Family Surroundings

Book:Monarchs and Mendicants

Source: Monarchs and Mendicants

“Just make sure the day doesn’t pass without sayin’ what’s in your heart. Sometimes you pass up those chances and they’re gone forever.”

Heart Passion Emotion Sincere Sincerity Regrets Gone Forever What S In Your Heart

Book:An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

Source: An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

“It’s as close to true freedom as I have come. Not freedom of, but freedom from; freedom from the debris of life that piles up and forces us to dig and dig for our original self, who we were once upon a time, innocent and wonderfully naïve, as authentically pure as a human can be.”

Self Individual Freedom Individuality Innocent Innocence Individualism Freedom From Fear Freedom From The Known Original Self Freedom From Anxiety

Book:An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

Source: An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

“Human thought and human caring go on in one brain and one heart at a time. Groups are necessary. Regulations are necessary. Government, I would hope limited government, is necessary. But it all starts with the individual. Everything that is accomplished starts with one person, even if the group steps in and helps; it’s still one brain and one heart at a time.”

Government Individual Individuality Individualism Limited Government Group

Book:A Punctual Paymaster

Source: A Punctual Paymaster

“Everybody dies. It’s no risk to lose your life. You knew it was lost from the beginning.”

Wisdom Death Knowledge Dying Losing Die Beginning Lose Lose Your Life Losing Your Life Rish

Book:Monarchs and Mendicants

Source: Monarchs and Mendicants

“A person gets built and stands for a few years and then nature’s demolition team comes in.”

Age Death Dying Aging Old Age Death And Dying Die

Book:Monarchs and Mendicants

Source: Monarchs and Mendicants

“Doing without will wear on you until temptation is stronger than character, sometimes.”

Character Poverty Temptation

Book:A Punctual Paymaster

Source: A Punctual Paymaster

“We, the beggar class, have little to lose and our expectations are, at best, modest, and when we suffer, it seems we suffer to the depths, for there is nothing in our lives nor in our souls to buoy our hope. Nothing in the way of the blackness. It sinks to the bottom as the lead weight that is despair. We look forward such a short distance that our spirit is myopic, not to be corrected by any lens within our world.”

Spirit Suffering Hope Loss Despair Expectations Hopeless Beggar Lose Suffer Beggars Beggar Class

Book:Monarchs and Mendicants

Source: Monarchs and Mendicants

“Gifford Ulrich didn’t know the distance from despair to hope, but he knew hope didn’t sleep in alleys.”

Hope Despair Hopeful Alleys Despair Hope Alley Alleyway

Book:Monarchs and Mendicants

Source: Monarchs and Mendicants

“As you get older, you have to be willing and able to choose your own path for your life. And once you choose it, you walk it with strength. If you meet evil along the way, know that it is supposed to make you afraid, but it’s not supposed to stop you. You walk through the fear and you walk through the evil, and you don’t let either one become your master.”

Evil Fear Strength Life Paths

Book:A Punctual Paymaster

Source: A Punctual Paymaster

“Evil won’t leave you alone until you take a stand or until you’re dead.”

Death Evil Dead Die Evil Quotes Take A Stand Evilness

Book:Monarchs and Mendicants

Source: Monarchs and Mendicants

“Evil stinks and it doesn’t disappear just because you want it to. You can still smell it with your eyes closed.”

Evil Evil Quotes Evilness

Book:Monarchs and Mendicants

Source: Monarchs and Mendicants

“I don’t know how a reporter would ever understand a politician. Your job is supposed to be about finding the truth and enlightening people. Right? A politician’s job is about hiding the truth and fooling people. Right? You want us to be better informed so we get smarter. They think we’re dumb and it’s to their advantage to keep us that way.”

Truth Politician News Smart Enlightenment Lies Journalism Dumb Smarter Reporters Lie Lies Politics Reporter Dumbness Well Informed

Book:An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

Source: An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

“How do we keep convincing young people to die in fights they didn’t start for reasons we’re too devious to tell the truth about? It’s way too easy for governments to spend other people’s blood. Maybe only the sons and daughters of those who declare the wars should be allowed to fight and die.”

War Government Truth Death Blood Lies Fight Die Lie Fights Declaring War

Book:An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

Source: An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

“I had always been a boy in this place, and many of the trees and rocks and streams had been old men when I knew them. Some had died. All had changed. I knew that. I had changed the most.”

Change Boys Youth Changes Change Quotes Boy Youthfulness Boyhood Youthful

Book:An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

Source: An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

“It’s a funny thing, one day you’re living and the next day you’re not sometimes, whether you have plans or not. Wishes and wants get trumped by the reaper every time. I don’t even know if I would want a warning if it was my time. I think I’d rather be surprised.”

Want Wish Living Life And Death Wishes Wants Wishing Wanting Dieing Living And Dieing

Book:An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

Source: An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

“If all you do is think about what you need, you’re no better than an animal in the woods, and no smarter either. To be human, you’ve got to want. It makes you smarter and stronger.”

Want Needs Humanity Strong Animal Smart Human Stronger Need Smarter Wants Wanting Needs And Wants Needing

Book:Monarchs and Mendicants

Source: Monarchs and Mendicants

“Reading had always been, through bad, boring, or better times, his best connection to humans.”

Humans Reading Books Human Connection Connect

Book:Monarchs and Mendicants

Source: Monarchs and Mendicants

“The bones of the oak tree that had stood by the spring branch during my youth were scattered about the ground, pieces of the skeleton of a majestic life that had passed while I was off growing up and old.”

Life Life Lessons Life Quotes Growing Up Life And Living Life Experience Growing Old Growing Older Oak Oak Tree Growing Up Quotes

Book:An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

Source: An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

“Books required no interchanges of thoughts and feelings, no trading of expectations, no traffic of words, no menace of real loss. Reading books required far less energy than reading people; the pages seldom disappointed him and they never died.”

Book Feelings Death Reading Loss Books Pages Thoughts Expectations Words Disappointment Reading Books Die Disappoint Menace Reading People

Book:Monarchs and Mendicants

Source: Monarchs and Mendicants

“The power of our country relies on the character that comes out of each of our homes.”

Country Character Home Power

Book:A Punctual Paymaster

Source: A Punctual Paymaster

“Back home. What wonderful words. What a wonderful place.”

Home Home Quotes

Book:An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

Source: An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

“There are struggles you cannot win, but a man can meet his own heart if value is found in loss. Give yourself permission to cry.”

Heart Loss Struggle Cry Value Crying Win Struggles Lose

Book:A Punctual Paymaster

Source: A Punctual Paymaster

“What a wonderful sadness to miss the one you have loved forever, it seems, and know that she is waiting at home.”

Waiting Sadness Missing Sad Missing Someone Waiting For You Sadness Quotes Miss Missing You Quotes Waiting Quotes

Book:An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

Source: An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

“Devotion to self is necessary. First, place the mask on yourself and breathe deeply. Then help the others. If you don’t save yourself, they will die.”

Self Self Esteem Self Help Devotion Need Save Save Yourself Necessity

Book:Monarchs and Mendicants

Source: Monarchs and Mendicants

“I wish but to share your gifts as a young boy on his birthday would excitedly rip open his packages to the view of others.”

Share Youth Gift Birthday Sharing Gifts Packages Boy Package Young Boy

Book:Monarchs and Mendicants

Source: Monarchs and Mendicants

“If you decide to take somebody on, don’t look behind you, because there won’t be anybody there. You’ll be all alone.”

Fighting Alone Fight Aloneness Fights Alone Quotes

Book:Monarchs and Mendicants

Source: Monarchs and Mendicants

“It made him wonder if all things taken from their home too soon lost some of their bloom.”

Growing Up Childhood Regret Regrets Growing Up Pains

Book:A Punctual Paymaster

Source: A Punctual Paymaster

“Despite his best efforts, maintaining dignity in a head attached to an unclean body wrapped in unclean garments was a battle that encouraged surrender.”

Battle Dignity Clean Surrender Cleanliness Cleanliness Is Next To Godliness

Book:Monarchs and Mendicants

Source: Monarchs and Mendicants

“Governments have absolutely no interest in self-reliance. It defeats one of the purposes for their existence. They encourage and thrive on dependency. The more of it they sell, the more necessary they are, and the more power and money they need.”

Government Power Independence Dependence Self Reliance Dependency

Book:A Punctual Paymaster

Source: A Punctual Paymaster

“Surviving is about need. Living is about want.”

Want Needs Survival Need Survived Surviving Survive Wants Wanting Needs And Wants

Book:Monarchs and Mendicants

Source: Monarchs and Mendicants

“We get so beat down by what we need, sometimes we forget how to want.”

Want Needs Need Wants Wanting Needs And Wants Needing

Book:Monarchs and Mendicants

Source: Monarchs and Mendicants

“Giants bleed like everybody else.”

Blood Universal Giants Universal Truths Giant Bleed

Book:Monarchs and Mendicants

Source: Monarchs and Mendicants

“The answers are in you, not around you.”

Answers Answer Questions And Answers

Book:An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

Source: An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

“People don’t die so the universe can gauge your reaction. They die because life is finite.”

Life Death Universe Die Finite Reaction Finite Life

Book:A Punctual Paymaster

Source: A Punctual Paymaster

“I can’t tell you what’s in all of God’s plans, but I do know part of them. He empowers you with reason and will. Those are your strengths. That’s what gives you the chance to be great in his sight. He gave you a mind and codes to live by so you could be in charge of your own actions.”

Mind Reason God Strength Code Empowering Will Empower Codes

Book:Monarchs and Mendicants

Source: Monarchs and Mendicants

“Time does not heal, but it can liberate. A race run well can never be lost.”

Time Winning Race Healing Losing Heal Liberation Winning And Losing Liberate

Book:A Punctual Paymaster

Source: A Punctual Paymaster

“There is a silent deference for one another, a distance that is kept, and lines that aren’t crossed, but in their sharing, they each try to pay tribute to the bond in their own way. As often as possible, they open up a little and give what they can.”

Lines Distance Sharing Tribute Bonding Bond Deference Social Distance Crossing Lines

Book:An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

Source: An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

“They understood that brave men could be injured more by pity than by disease.”

Disease Bravery Brave Pity

Book:A Punctual Paymaster

Source: A Punctual Paymaster

“My world was very limited in size and experience. Small things took on extra importance, at least to a child.”

Childhood Child Childhood Memories Experience Quotes Small World Childhood Memory Quotes About Childhood

Book:An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

Source: An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

“Sometimes when the three of us were together on our own, we would have a good time. I was pretty young, but sometimes we would go off in the woods and build forts and fight Indians and I think things were about as close to fine as they ever got right then during those times. In the woods. No parents. No yelling.”

Children Young Childhood Youth Child Child Abuse

Book:An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

Source: An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

“Memories with laughter are the best ones to keep.”

Memories Laughter Memory Memory Quote Quotes About Memories

Book:An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

Source: An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

“As I have aged, I’ve been lucky never to reach old. Old is always at least five or ten years beyond my current calendar stage.”

Age Lucky Aging Old Aging Quotes

Book:An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

Source: An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

“A government that thinks it can remedy personal failure is an intrusion in everybody’s life. No law is going to cure a human’s lack of physical or mental effectiveness. I’d rather see democracy promote strength than reward weakness.”

Government Strength Failure Weakness Lack Of Effectiveness

Book:A Punctual Paymaster

Source: A Punctual Paymaster

“Now, it’s time for me to lock up and go. Listen to me. Lock up an empty building that’s gonna be torn down. Makes no sense. Like an old man tellin’ a lie to his son from his death bed. What’s the point? Who besides yourself are you fooling?”

Son Old Age Old Man Lie Old Liar Death Bed Fooling Yourself Fool Yourself

Book:An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

Source: An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

“Don’t ever use a shovel to swat a fly.”

Fly Overkill Shovel

Book:A Punctual Paymaster

Source: A Punctual Paymaster

“The world has a way of dragging down our mood.”

World Mood Down Dragging Down

Book:A Punctual Paymaster

Source: A Punctual Paymaster

“The world bein’ so small ain’t always a good thing for those of us who ain’t searchin’ for new and different stuff.”

Different Change Difference New Small World

Book:An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

Source: An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

“Does the plain, simple beauty of life get buried under society’s so-called required daily activities or is that just true of me? No, I know I’m not alone in that feeling. We all get caught up in the making and spending of money. I know it’s not just me.”

Life Money Making Money Beauty Of Life Spending Money Daily Activities

Book:An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

Source: An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

Dan Groat Books

Monarchs and Mendicants

An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

A Punctual Paymaster

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