The Road Home Quotes.

11. "It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs."
- Jim Harrison, The Road Home

12. "When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought"
- Jim Harrison, The Road Home

13. "All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners."
- Jim Harrison, The Road Home

14. "To the white people, among whom I helplessly number myself, life is a very long and high set of stairs, but to my mother life was a river, a slow and stately wind across the sky, an endless sea of grass."
- Jim Harrison, The Road Home

15. "We think of life as solid and are haunted when time tells us it is a fluid. Old Heraclitus couldn't have stepped in the same river once, let alone twice."
- Jim Harrison, The Road Home

16. "I suppose poor Adams never recovered from the suicide of his wife, though it is arguable whether anyone ever truly recovers from anything."
- Jim Harrison, The Road Home

17. "When did being single become a disease?"
- Michael Thomas Ford, The Road Home

18. "There’s nothing more complicated – or fragile – than the relationship between parents and their children. It’s like no other relationship there is. And no one tells you how to make it work. Either you find your way or you don’t."
- Michael Thomas Ford, The Road Home

19. "If I were a girl, I’d be sucking every cock I could get my mouth on, Will said. Fuck, I’d take on the whole football team at one time. Burke ran his hand through Will’s hair. Careful, he said. You don’t want to get a reputation as a bad girl. No one will marry you, then."
- Michael Thomas Ford, The Road Home

20. "One of the great lies we tell ourselves is that just because we’re related to people, we have to like them."
- Michael Thomas Ford, The Road Home