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The Ice-Shirt (Seven Dreams #1) QUOTES

The Ice-Shirt (Seven Dreams #1) QUOTES

1 " (Can you understand your own dreams, which arise with mushrooms' rank richness in the night-forests within your skull?) "

― William T. Vollmann , The Ice-Shirt (Seven Dreams #1)

2 " Looking at her, thinking of her transported him, which struck him as vile because now it was hard for him not to despise the icy serenity of their earlier relations. And he knew that he should not love her, for she had been someone else whom he was supposed to love differently. -What is loneliness? Does the lonely space between two rocks vanish when spanned by a spider web? "

― William T. Vollmann , The Ice-Shirt (Seven Dreams #1)

3 " But where corpses were buried secretly, there the grass grows thick; such signs (and there are ever so many others!) may be read by those to whom truth is more important than beauty. "

― William T. Vollmann , The Ice-Shirt (Seven Dreams #1)

4 " But I don't think a river wants anything, except to be itself. Just like anybody and anything. I don't think it claimed a soul. I don't think it's at all vindictive or vicious, just itself. It just seemed very honest. If you hear a river moan, you know it has life. "

― William T. Vollmann , The Ice-Shirt (Seven Dreams #1)

5 " The landscape around us is but a shadow of the landscape within us. "

― William T. Vollmann , The Ice-Shirt (Seven Dreams #1)

6 " . . . for his thoughts were but a succession of stars that wheeled about in his skull-sky like the moon and the sun, chasing each other through all the lovely halls. "

― William T. Vollmann , The Ice-Shirt (Seven Dreams #1)

7 " I ask again: - Do we carry our landscapes with us locked in our ice-hearts, and can we fit them over what was there just as we can clothe ourselves forever in the stiff and crackling cloaks that lie in the churchyard permafrost at Herjolfsness? "

― William T. Vollmann , The Ice-Shirt (Seven Dreams #1)

8 " ...he sometimes thought that they had achieved a perfect understanding. Gudrid knew this, and took pleasure in it. But she could not let it stand in the way of her plans. "

― William T. Vollmann , The Ice-Shirt (Seven Dreams #1)

9 " In those days you had to be careful what you thought, because your thoughts would come true. Nowadays you have to be careful what you think because if you think it, it will never happen. "

― William T. Vollmann , The Ice-Shirt (Seven Dreams #1)