Brian Carter > Quotes

“I come from sky,’ Jacko thought. ‘My head full of fire.’ He had looked into a pool once and had seen his eyes twinkling among the stars.”
― Brian Carter, A Black Fox Running

“The war was the height of human frailty and viciousness, yet I have seen immortal psychopath in the shaving mirror. There is some awful, inherent, self-destructive, race-destructive flaw in man. We pretend we live in a state of history but we don't. We don't even live in a state of nature like animals. We are outsiders - the prowling aliens against whom all the wolf fires have been lit.”
― Brian Carter, A Black Fox Running

“What would the world do to him? But he couldn't be gloomy. The otter had escaped and he'd seen Old Blackie again. Sure, the kid would change but childhood was a separate lifetime anyways. It wasn't the just the stifling of the pastoral instinct that dulled the vision. You couldn't endure that intensity day after day. You'd see everything too clearly, and all the mediocrity and stupidity would drive you nuts.”
― Brian Carter, A Black Fox Running

“everything registered in black and white. The sleek, red fox was born to freedom and I loved him … his enemies were my enemies and because they came from another class they were easy to misunderstand and dislike.”
― Brian Carter, A Black Fox Running

“What would the world do to him. But he couldn't be gloomy. The otter had escaped and he'd seen Old Blackie again. Sure, the kid would change but childhood was a separate lifetime anyways. It wasn't the just the stifling of the pastoral instinct that dulled the vision. You couldn't endure that intensity day after day. You'd see everything too clearly, and all the mediocrity and stupidity would drive you nuts.”
― Brian Carter, A Black Fox Running