Richard Wagamese Quotes

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

Richard Wagamese

#2. Every lover is a soldier.

Ovid

#3. All you have to do is look south to get me hard.

Victoria Vane

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

Richard Wagamese

#5. Gerald Middleton was a man of mildly but persistently depressive temperament. Such men are not at their best at breakfast, nor is the week before Christmas their happiest time.

Angus Wilson

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

Richard Wagamese

#7. You must be talking about my new friend. The woman named Tilda.
- Olympias

James Dashner

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

Richard Wagamese

#9. 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.

Richard Wagamese

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

Richard Wagamese

#11. People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Richard Wagamese

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

Richard Wagamese

#14. 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.

Richard Wagamese

#15. 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.

Richard Wagamese

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

Richard Wagamese

#17. Answer all the questions that I'm too afraid to ask

Rachel Cohn