It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes brood haunt melancholy
Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together. David Guterson authorchangefigure share on social
The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer. David Guterson answerburyevade Change image and share on social
Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs. David Guterson addressdeadhuman Change image and share on social
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. Anatole France dieenterleave Change image and share on social
In a pine tree behind me, an eagle waits out the rain, hunched into himself, brooding. Crows squabble, a murder chasing a raven. Seals cruise the lines of fishing nets bobbing in the water, hoping for an easy meal, the tender bellies of salmon. Eden Robinson bellybobbrood share on social
Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth. Victoria Secunda daughterhaunthear Change image and share on social
