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“People prefer to believe in a lie or a dream and do not like the people who wake them.”
― Salt Creek
― Salt Creek
“You decide for yourself the things you want to know about yourself, even if not in your entirely conscious self; you choose not to peer down into the mess of it all. That’s what I do, I’ll admit it. I turn away.”
― Wolfe Island
― Wolfe Island
“There is something about a dog.They love freely; they do not judge or blame; they forgive. That's a blessing every day of their lives, and you pay for it when they die.”
― Wolfe Island
― Wolfe Island
“And then we came here, all through Papa's choices, his risks, because of him. One day I will leave here, and it will not be with another man or because of a man. Men make so free with the lives of others and judge themselves so little when things go awry. Where does it come from? How could I respect such a person?”
― Salt Creek
― Salt Creek
“Birds don't think: I will fly. They are flight.”
― Salt Creek
― Salt Creek
“Sometimes it seemed that every grass head, every insect claw, every tree root, every fleck of slobber about the bullocks mouth had been carved by miraculous chisel. Or that sometimes the sea was a gaseous haze, or that a sea mist held it's own glow and could be cut right through with an out-swept arm.”
― Salt Creek
― Salt Creek
“There are years that pass in which nothing at all seems to happen but the changes in seasons, and even those can't be called events considering the way they dissolve into each other. And there are days in which entire lives turn on their axes, grinding against each other like mechanisms, crushing the things that fall between. Afterwards there are only pieces remaining and people must make of them what they will and what they can.”
― Salt Creek
― Salt Creek
“My life occupied a small space; it was time that moved: days and weeks and months and seasons and years rolling across me as inevitable as night. Moving any great distance would be like a cut against the grain of time.”
― Salt Creek
― Salt Creek
