Best 22 quotes of Tom Spanbauer on MyQuotes

Her heartbeat was in her hands, her heart beat the way she moved her head, her whole body was her heart beating.

Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence.

I'm an old Catholic. I don't believe in anything Catholic but I do believe that Catholicism keeps me from committing suicide.

It's the responsibility of the survivor to tell the story.

I was wounded by a blow of love.

Life is a mess, Rose said. You can fix the mess human beings make, Rose said, But you can't fix the mess being human is.

Maybe you've had skin next to your skin, but when was the last time you let yourself be touched?

Sometimes the world is so beautiful it hurts.

takes a devil to make a decent angel.

The key to being a warrior is not to be afraid of who you are.

The way I figure it, we know we got this world, so live in this one while you’re here. I figure the next one will take care of itself.

A person without her or his own truth ain't a person at all, Ida said. Anybody who tells you different—is a jackass, and no longer deserves to be called human being.

At our table in the corner by the window, huddled around a flame in a red glass, all of us, body to body to body to body. The touch that proves you're not alone, that someone else is there.

Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.

Every time you hear a car alarm, Ruby said, another New Yorker has gone to hell.

Felt good, though, just being what I was.

God made man because he loves to hear stories, Alessandro said. That's a good story, huh?

I tell you I'm tired of hearing it. There ain't nothing that happens to a person that ain't that person. The world out there only does what you tell it to do. The world is happening to you the way it is happening because you're telling yourself the story that way. If you want to change the world so damn bad, Ida, then where you got to start is how it is you're looking at it.

The fates lead her who will; who won't they drag.

Things start where you don't know and end up where you know. When you know is when you ask, How did this start?

Weird here is something we aspire to, something we perfect, get degrees in, get awards for.

With tybo men there isn't much difference between fucking and killing.