Tim-o-brien Quotes

You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.

Stories can save us.

Stories are for joining the past to the future.

Don't throw away luck on little stuff. Save it up.

What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.

…he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered. He wanted her to be a v...

Each morning, despite the unknowns, they made their legs move.

That’s what fiction is for. It’s for getting at the truth when the truth isn’t sufficient for the tr...