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A review by skylar_tibbetts
Dalva by Jim Harrison
5.0
“It was today - rather yesterday I think - that he told me it was important not to accept life as a brutal approximation… The fly that flies around me now in the dark is every fly that ever flew around me.” (3)
“I was on the verge of jumping into one of those holes in life out of which we emerge a bit tattered and bloody though we remain nonetheless sure that we had to make the jump.” (65)
“She had started the car, but turned it off as if waiting for me to complete my thought. She gave me a look of complete incomprehension, and I tried to get out of the hole I was digging. There was always the chance I could lose her if I couldn’t become a little more than myself.” (155, my favorite page in the book)
“There is the question of whether life is long enough to get over anything. I sat on the ground to avoid tipping over from the enormity of it all.” (174)
“What is thought of as leadership involved an ability to deal with thoroughly compromised situations, while I am hopefully addicted to primary colors, and the direct approach.” (250)
“I was on the verge of jumping into one of those holes in life out of which we emerge a bit tattered and bloody though we remain nonetheless sure that we had to make the jump.” (65)
“She had started the car, but turned it off as if waiting for me to complete my thought. She gave me a look of complete incomprehension, and I tried to get out of the hole I was digging. There was always the chance I could lose her if I couldn’t become a little more than myself.” (155, my favorite page in the book)
“There is the question of whether life is long enough to get over anything. I sat on the ground to avoid tipping over from the enormity of it all.” (174)
“What is thought of as leadership involved an ability to deal with thoroughly compromised situations, while I am hopefully addicted to primary colors, and the direct approach.” (250)