"Angle of Repose" Quotes
A wheelchair-bound historian grapples with his personal life while writing a biography of his grandparents' struggles in the American West.
fiction | 482 pages | Published in 2000
Quotes
Remember that justice is only for men, and a woman's voice follows silence just a little too quickly.
In another country I might have been a genius.
Sometimes it takes memory a long time to put the pieces together.
What we have, we use, and let us have something to use tomorrow.
There are certain things that can’t be claimed by the future, nor by anybody else. They belong only to the present.
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.
Most people’s lives were made up of a series of mistakes punctuated by moments of brilliance.
I live in my own little world, where the columbines bloom and the bridge lights up at night.
The days are as big as apples, at least during the morning. Then shadows grow and everything is gristle and concrete.
Perhaps the most important thing to know is that whatever makes a person vile also makes a person precious.
