Josh Ritter Quotes

#1. Mud and water and the stumps of trees. In every direction that was all there was. Bodies fell, but the trees died standing up.

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#2. I'm looking over rooftops, and I'm hoping it ain't true, that the same God looks out for them, looks out for me and you.

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#3. The real desk isn't one with four legs and a filing cabinet. It's the space of time that you stake out every day and the will with which you defend it.

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#4. Its been a long time coming but now the snow is gone

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#5. I'm singing for the love of it/Have mercy on the man who sings to be adored.

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#6. Around mile 20 I was feeling so good, I wanted to kiss everyone.

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#7. Every heart is a package tangled up in knots someone else tied.

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#8. God can give or take away, Well who would make such an awful rule.

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#9. I do think that there's art that is tortured, but I prefer art that has the joy in it.

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#10. It was the blue of the sky that caught him first: a rapturous, painfully pure spike of color that hooked his eyes like fish and reeled them upward into the heights.

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#11. Most of all: There's uncertainty in our lives. At night, you just have to go to sleep and have faith in the fairly large certainty that you'll wake up in the morning. Fear only has as much power as we give it space.

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