Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Quotes

Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. (1.18)

I am absolutely alone. There are no other customers. The road is vacant, the interstate is out of sight and earshot. I have hazarded into a new corner of the world, an unknown spot, a Brigadoon. (6.4)

I saw color-patches for weeks […] it was summer; the peaches were ripe in the valley orchards. When I woke in the morning, color-patches wrapped around my eyes, intricately, leaving not one unfil...

It seizes a victim with these legs, hugs it tight, and paralyzes it with enzymes injected during a vicious bite. That one bite is the only bite it ever takes. (1.15)

I have to maintain in my head a running description of the present. It's not that I'm observant; it's just that I talk too much. (2.31)

It could be that God has not absconded but spread, as our vision and understanding of the universe have spread, to a fabric of spirit and sense so grand and subtle, so powerful in a new way, that w...

When it comes again, the light, you hold your breath, and if it stays you forget about it until it goes again. (1.24)

Like the bear who went over the mountain, I went out to see what I could see. And, I might as well warn you, like the bear, all that I could see was the other side of the mountain: more of the same...