Peter Geye Quotes

#1. Every person, I have come to believe, has a moment or a place in life when all four points of the compass converge, from when or where their life finally takes--for better or for worse--its fated course.

Peter Geye

#2. Someday your child will be full of wants. What they'll want more than anything, whether they know it or not, is for you to cherish them.

Peter Geye

#3. When she asked what my father taught me, I told her I couldn't put it into words. But then I lay awake watching the snow fall outside and came up with this: how brave a thing it was for him to try to rediscover something, even if it was only himself, not a continent.

Peter Geye

#4. I thought how wise he was to lure his rival out into the woods, where every fight's fair.

Peter Geye

#5. And though I had misgiving--obvious ones, too--one overwhelming thing drove me on: on the borderlands, my father would need me as much as I'd need him. That's what made me so blindly ready to go off with him. What boy doesn't wait his whole childhood to walk alongside his father on equal terms?

Peter Geye

#6. Around midnight he'd decided there was but a single course of action: He must remove her ovaries to quell the madness.

Peter Geye

#7. History and memory aren't the same thing[...] History doesn't abide acts of the imagination but memories depend on it. And memories are as much what we've forgotten as what we recall. History cannot be forgotten.

Peter Geye