Jonathan

“It was a leap into the other”
― Kate Grenville, The Lieutenant

“Others, tiring of the sound of Buxtehude and Bach for hours on end, would complain there was no tune. That was exactly the thing he liked best about a fugue, the fact that it could not be sung. A fugue was not singular, as a melody was, but plural. It was a conversation.”
― Kate Grenville, The Lieutenant

“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

“What he had not learned from Latin or Greek he was learning from the people of New South Wales. It was this: you did not learn a language without entering into a relationship with the people who spoke it with you. His friendship with Tagaran was not a list of objects, or the words for things eaten or not eaten, thrown or not thrown. It was the slow constructing of the map of a relationship.”
― Kate Grenville, The Lieutenant