Scott Pearce Books & Quotes

Source: The Rider on the Bridge

“We were all going to die. There was no way out. We fluttered like drowning moths.”

Despair Hopelessness Futility Existential Dread No Escape

Book:The Rider on the Bridge

Source: The Rider on the Bridge

“Sentimentality is like religion and it demands a spiritual sufferance. It comes from frightened people.”

Fear Philosophy Quotes Religion Quotes Sentimentality

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“the seed of the apple doesn't turn out like the tree it came from. It becomes something of its own, sometimes better, sometimes not.”

Identity Self Discovery Parents And Children Identity Quotes Generational Differences

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“Still, on frostbitten mornings, under the sheen of a slithering mist, as I stood on the balcony, there was also a relief to be found in the wilderness that obscured us from the world and its revulsions.”

Solitude Contemplation Wilderness Beauty In Brokenness

Book:The Rider on the Bridge

Source: The Rider on the Bridge

“Perhaps, like me, they found shelter in unfulfilled suburban pipedreams. And perhaps they mourned for the summer, felt the press of age, the ache of a world that barely turned and was not cruel or kind, but indifferent.”

Reflection Nostalgia Yearning Literary Fiction Unfulfilled Dreams Suburban Life Unfulfilled Life

Book:The Rider on the Bridge

Source: The Rider on the Bridge

“It was only much later that I understood what had happened to them more thoroughly; and how the demoralising complications and compromises in their young lives ravaged their relationship. When they first left home, they do so together; they must have taken care of each other. Maybe they had an idea, halfway formed, that was going to make everything okay again; but it died, and now they had to carry it around and maybe it would be that way forever.”

Regret Trauma Broken Dreams Loss Of Innocence Emotional Scars

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“I waited in the kitchen and watched as a bright morning sun swept through the rooms. It would briefly catch on the part of the window that was not filthy, or a patch of carpet near the trim that had not been trampled by decades of stomping feet, and these things were transformed as if in some Cinderella story; dust particles shone like shooting stars caught in an upstream. I wanted to catch that light, to be purified in it and become a better version of myself.”

Hope Transformation Longing Redemption Beauty In The Ordinary

Book:The Rider on the Bridge

Source: The Rider on the Bridge

“You know there's a finite number of atoms, subatomic particles.' He turned his head towards me, knowing it was a language I wouldn't understand. 'Everything transforms into something else, so maybe, someday, it come back.”

Hope Change Loss Human Condition Impermanence

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“sometimes the living are beholden to the dead”

Past Grief Quotes Memory Quote Family Ties Haunting Past

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“The wilderness was dangerous; it infected me. I would be forever unmoored, inured to the safety of isolation.”

Isolation Existentialism Psychological Trauma Unmoor

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“stubbornness in the face of calamity has no reward”

Pride Stubbornness Resilience Quotes Moral Lessons Moral Lesson

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“To abandon through choice or misfortune did not matter. Regardless of the catalyst, a wound was a wound. His mother did not die to rebuke him, to renounce him, he would not say that she did; but she did.”

Guilt Trauma Grief And Loss Wounds To The Heart

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“The days were shorter, meek and barren. It rained constantly, as if to signal the grave beginnings of a ritual, and we, as the last members of the tribe, did not know how to separate the profane from the sacred.”

Winter Ritual Symbolism Mythic Imagery The Sacred And The Profane

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“The air felt hot in Vic's lungs and he held it there. It was now an all-or-nothing game. He had the sense that he was alone, that all the Henrithvale players were alone; and in this tempest they must now sail for home or let the mast break and the hull fill with water and be damned.”

Sports Battle Courage Quotes Fight Or Flight Football Quotes

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Scott Pearce Books

The Rider on the Bridge

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