The Bear
Andrew Krivak
Top 10 Best Quotes
“But I miss whom I once could touch, as all must do when we make our way through whatever forest or wood it is in which we travel or are raised. This does not mean the man is lost or has disappeared forever. For although he no longer walks beside you, he still remains in the time and place of memory and this is where he will appear again and again, as often as you will seek him. Not only in those places where he has always been but where he could not be then yet will be now.”
“But we don't get to choose when we leave here to sleep on the mountain. We all have to sleep on the mountain one day. Even the bear. Even when we struggle with all our will not to.”
“Her father told her once that all animals were creatures of habit and so, too, were they. The difference was she could choose to change her habits. Animals changed when they were afraid. Change before feat has had a chance to overcome you, he said, or after you have overcome it and like a storm it has moved on.”
“Sleep is the only balm I know.”
“She said she hoped that would be a long time, for there was one more story yet to tell, the ending of which neither he nor she would ever know.”
“I’ll miss you, he whispered. She understood now and held his hand tighter.”
“Imagine it from here everything you say in front of you — lake, trees, the mountains to the edge of the horizon — was water. Endless blue water of waves in constant motion. That’s what the ocean looks like. The girl frowned. I can’t imagine it, she said. No, said the man. You can’t. Not until you see it. And hear it. And smell it.”
“Imagine it from here everything you saw in front of you — lake, trees, the mountains to the edge of the horizon — was water. Endless blue water of waves in constant motion. That’s what the ocean looks like. The girl frowned. I can’t imagine it, she said. No, said the man. You can’t. Not until you see it. And hear it. And smell it.”
“For although he no longer walks beside you, he still remains in the time and place a memory and this is where he will appear again and again, as often as you will seek him. Not only in those places where he has always been but where he could not be then yet will be now.”
“AND YET NO MATTER HOW LONG WINTER LASTED, spring followed, its arrival soft and somehow surprising, like the notes of birdsong upon waking, or the tap of water slipping in a droplet from a branch to the ground.”
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Book Keywords:
memories, change, grief, loss, death, love, time, choice, imagination, sleep, dying, ocean, habit
