21 quotes found
“I wish I knew how to quit you.”
“All must pay the debt of nature.”
“It takes a year, nephew... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone.”
“In every life there are events that reshape one's sense of existence. Afterward, all is different and the past is dimmed.”
“The thing American people fear about corporations is that they might achieve too much power. We have an antipathy to power even as we admire it.”
“And I think that's important to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.”
“No, they didnt have any money, the sea was dangerous and men were lost, but it was a satisfying life in a way people today do not understand. There was a joinery of lives all worked together, smoot...”
“Youve got a chance to start out all over again. A new place, new people, new sights. A clean slate. See, you can be anything you want with a fresh start.”
“Again the ranch is on the market and theyve shipped out the last of the horses, paid everybody off the day before, the owner saying, Give them to the real estate shark, Im out a here, dropping the ...”
“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
“Quoyle experienced moments in all colors, uttered brilliancies, paid attention to the rich sound of waves counting stones, he laughed and wept, noticed sunsets, heard music in rain, said I do.”
“Inside Duquet something like a tightly closed pine cone licked by fire opened abruptly and he exploded with incensed and uncontrollable fury, a lifes pent-up rage. No one helped me, he shrieked, I ...”
“When the watermelons were as large as a child's head, the women boiled them, but they collapsed into a tasteless green mush that no one could eat, not the children, not the cow.”
“We face up to awful things because we can't go around them, or forget them. The sooner you say 'Yes, it happened, and there's nothing I can do about it,' the sooner you can get on with your own lif...”
“We dont make the decisions, just does what were told where and when were told. We lives by rules made somewhere else by sons a bitches dont know nothin about this place.”
“A kind of joyous hysteria moved into the room, everything flying before the wind, vehicles outside getting dented to hell, the crowd sweaty and the smells of aftershave, manure, clothes dried on th...”
“Again the ranch is on the market and they’ve shipped out the last of the horses, paid everybody off the day before, the owner saying, ‘Give them to the real estate shark, I’m out a here,” dropping ...”
“You’ve got a chance to start out all over again. A new place, new people, new sights. A clean slate. See, you can be anything you want with a fresh start.”
“No, they didn’t have any money, the sea was dangerous and men were lost, but it was a satisfying life in a way people today do not understand. There was a joinery of lives all worked together, smoo...”
“We don’t make the decisions, just does what we’re told where and when we’re told. We lives by rules made somewhere else by sons a bitches don’t know nothin’ about this place.”
