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A Place Like This QUOTES

A Place Like This QUOTES

1 " I'm not sure if my dream is a dream, or a nightmare. "

― Steven Herrick , A Place Like This

2 " Our great adventure ran out of petrol and stopped on this farm. "

― Steven Herrick , A Place Like This

3 " I’m alone with the ghost of the swamp, somewhere near the weeping willows. "

― Steven Herrick , A Place Like This

4 " And I feel like a real Dad when I read to her at night. She won't sleep without one story, at least. "

― Steven Herrick , A Place Like This

5 " I tell him about ... Jack and Annabel, smart and ready and I'm wondering where all that smart comes from and I figure some from parents, some from school, and some from a place inside you. "

― Steven Herrick , A Place Like This

6 " It was a good apple too. A good apple, picked by a madman on a full moon night. "

― Steven Herrick , A Place Like This

7 " I'm glad she left me the kids. I'd be lost without them. Lost and bitter. With them here, I'm only bitter. "

― Steven Herrick , A Place Like This

8 " I walked out of his room sure I'd said the right thing maybe not as a father but as a Dad. I'd said the right thing, for once in my life. "

― Steven Herrick , A Place Like This

9 " She didn't have an answer for that. People like her only ever have questions. "

― Steven Herrick , A Place Like This

10 " She taught me what's important, and what isn't. And I've never forgotten. And that's what mothers do, I say. "

― Steven Herrick , A Place Like This

11 " I know that today, with a full tank, and with Annabel, that it's time to go. "

― Steven Herrick , A Place Like This

12 " I work hard in the orchard, not for the money anymore, but for something I can't explain. Something worth more than money. "

― Steven Herrick , A Place Like This

13 " Emma says after I was born I cried for days. She said I'd never shut up which is funny really because Dad says I never shut up now so maybe that's what happens, you get born and act the same your whole life. "

― Steven Herrick , A Place Like This

14 " But when I look at this farm I keep thinking it's not whether I have the guts to go but if I have the guts to stay. "

― Steven Herrick , A Place Like This

15 " Two Arts degrees does not a life make. "

― Steven Herrick , A Place Like This

16 " I tell him everything as we walk. Maybe so he won't be disappointed being born into a place like this. "

― Steven Herrick , A Place Like This