Jonathan

“Violence had an enlivening effect. As long as someone else was the victim it made the blood pump, gave the world an edge of glamour.”
― Kate Grenville, The Lieutenant

“But below the chaos of a single human life, you could trust that a cosmic breve was sounding.”
― Kate Grenville, The Lieutenant

“Man had been given a brain that could think in numbers, and it could not be coincidence that the world was unlocked by that very tool. To understand any aspect of the cosmos was to look on the face of God: not directly, but by a species of triangulation, because to think mathematically was to feel the action of God in oneself.”
― Kate Grenville, The Lieutenant

“Until you could put yourself at some point beyond your own world, looking back at it, you would never see how everything worked together.”
― Kate Grenville, The Lieutenant