Richard Wagamese Quotes

#1. The head has no answers, and the heart has no questions, Jack would say.
Quoting his teacher and good friend Jack Kakakaway

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#2. For my wife Deborah, for allowing me to bask in her light and become more.

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#3. They scooped out our insides, Saul. We're not responsible for that. We're not responsible for what happened to us. None of us are. Fred said. But our healing
that's up to us. That's what saved me. Knowing it was my game.

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#4. I gave them nothing back because all I knew was the vast amount they had taken from me, robbed me of, cheated me out of, all in the name of a God whose son bore the long hair none of us were allowed to wear any more.

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#5. There was a feeling in him like waiting for a punishment.

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#6. We become eternal by being held in memory's loving arms.

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#7. That's what's important really, Keeper says. Learning how to be what the Creator created you to be. Face your truth.

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#8. He held his hand up to his face and licked the wound. Blood. Old-tasting and rich like the sediment of a river. He looked at Jimmy. The blood on their faces meant they were part of the same stream now, bobbing in the current, borne forward effortlessly under the slowly twirling dome of the sky.

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#9. She only nodded. It's all we are in the end. Our stories.

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#10. I discovered that being someone you are not is often easier than living with the person you are.

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#11. I understood then that when you miss a thing it leaves a hole that only the thing you miss can fill.

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