Truth Quote by Bill Bryson — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father has recently died and it dawns on you that when he went he took some of you with him.”

“I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.”

“Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.”

“Sometimes what we want isn't what we need.”

“Sometimes people don’t understand”

“Smartass Disciple: If there were two masters, which one should I listen to?”

“We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality.”

“Something went klunk. Like a nickel dropping in a soda machine. One of those small insights that explains everything. This was puberty for these boys. Adolescence. The first date, the first kiss, the first chance to hold hands with someone special. Delayed, postponed, a decade's worth of longing--while everybody around you celebrates life, you pretend, suppress, inhibit, deprive yourself of you own joy--but finally ultimately, eventually, you find a place where you can have a taste of everything denied.”

“If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.”