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The Western Wind QUOTES

The Western Wind QUOTES

1 " But it’s our nature to deny what frightens us, and it’s not wicked or dull. Isn’t there always a bright, willing part of us that keeps hoping that what we know isn’t true? "

― Samantha Harvey , The Western Wind

2 " Only somebody with a mind like a rock could go on with the idea that we on our little island are separate from those other places — that great world is rainbow threads woven into our greys and greens. Where did this leather belt come from? he asked me, of a belt I couldn’t see. Not English goats, but Norwegian ones. And the flour for baking bread that feeds our great cities? From Baltic grain, high up in the north. And the ironwork on our new weathervane? Spanish iron. Our little land is flecked with foreignness, the Lord wants our colourful commingling. "

― Samantha Harvey , The Western Wind

3 " She paused; her speech was ever thus. Spirals of deepening particulars, then pauses when she saw she'd strayed from the point. "

― Samantha Harvey , The Western Wind

4 " Why can't time go backwards as well as forward? If time's not a river but a circle, and if you can travel round a circle one way or another and end up where you started, why can't it go this way and that? "

― Samantha Harvey , The Western Wind

5 " Places you know can seem like foreign lands when your mind's lost itself to the dark. "

― Samantha Harvey , The Western Wind

6 " Laziness is a man wasting time, greed is him wasting food or money, anger is him wasting his peace. But envy - envy is him wasting his fellow man. Wasting the solace of other men. "

― Samantha Harvey , The Western Wind