Doug Dorst Professions : Novelist Browse All Authors Top 8 quotes by Doug Dorst Look at Andrew Roe's The Miracle Girl from one angle and you'll see an incisive and insightful critique of America at the millennium and today, investigating where we put our faith and why. The greatest of Roe's achievements in this captivating debut is a memorable feat of intense empathy. Roe inhabits characters who are desperate to believe and reveals to us their needs and wounds and hopes, and he does so with kindness, generosity, and wisdom. This is a novel about what it means to be human, to seek connection and hope and maybe even transcendence in the world around us. Doug Dorst girl kindness believe We're all just in the muck trying to believe we're capable of greatness, but closer to breaking than we want to admit. And we tell ourselves stories-about ourselves,but maybe also all these stories about other people, about characters-as a way to hide from how small we are. Doug Dorst character life believe Of course there is a monkey. There is always a monkey. Doug Dorst monkeys courses What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin. Doug Dorst ends water A person is no more & no less than the Story of his Passions & Deeds. Doug Dorst passion deeds stories I don't trust anyone who wouldn't. Doug Dorst cant-trust-anyone dont-trust-anyone dont-trust Believing something doesn't change who you are. Neither does rejecting something you once believd in. Doug Dorst rejecting doe believe Time and circumstances change us...and it is pointless to ask why. Doug Dorst pointless asks circumstances Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors
