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House of Sand and Fog QUOTES

House of Sand and Fog QUOTES

1 " Sometimes in this life, only one or two opportunities are put before us and we must seize them no matter the risk. "

― Andre Dubus III , House of Sand and Fog

2 " Dat's what they say of this cauntry back home, Kath: 'America, the land of milk and honey.' Bot they never tell you the milk's gone sour and the honey's stolen. "

― Andre Dubus III , House of Sand and Fog

3 " The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other. "

― Andre Dubus III , House of Sand and Fog

4 " it's almost easier being down and alone than when you re up and no one s there to share the view with you "

― Andre Dubus III , House of Sand and Fog

5 " For our excess we lost everything. "

― Andre Dubus III , House of Sand and Fog

6 " If there is no snake at your feet, do not lift rocks at the side of the road. "

― Andre Dubus III , House of Sand and Fog

7 " And that's what I wanted: obliteration. Decimation. Just an instant smear of me right out of all this rising and falling and nothing changing that feels like living. "

― Andre Dubus III , House of Sand and Fog

8 " Regret was Fear’s big sister, "

― Andre Dubus III , House of Sand and Fog

9 " this I know of life’s difficult times: there is always a time for them to begin and a time for them to end, and the man who knows this knows he must thank God for each day he has suffered because that is always one day closer to the sun, the real sun. "

― Andre Dubus III , House of Sand and Fog

10 " But when he sat on the bed beside me, then leaned over and kissed my forehead, my cheek, my lips, his hand pressed to my rib cage, the other stroking my hair back, it was like I was an empty well and didn't know it until just now when he uncovered me and it started to rain. "

― Andre Dubus III , House of Sand and Fog

11 " I feel so much I hardly feel anything at all. "

― Andre Dubus III , House of Sand and Fog

12 " The ocean to my right was maroon, the sky above it silver. There were sand trails through the thick purple ice plant that grew along the roadside... but now the sky is the color of peaches...

It was a ball of bright saffron sinking into the sea, turning the water purple, the sky orange and green. "

― Andre Dubus III , House of Sand and Fog

13 " Soraya-joon, I have done all that I could. Do not be sorry for us. Your mother and I await you upon your return. We love you more than we have loved life. After your dear brother name your first son. Live here if you like, but if you sell it take no less than one hundred thousand dollars. ~Bawbaw "

― Andre Dubus III , House of Sand and Fog

14 " if there is no feet at your feet, do not lift rocks at the side of the road. "

― Andre Dubus III , House of Sand and Fog

15 " It’s easy K. on one side of the page you got your costs and on the other side your benefits. All you do is mark which one is which, then you weigh one side against the other and you get your decision just like that. that’s all you ever have to do. i live by this.”

"But what if you don’t know the difference between a benefit and a cost? what if you’ve never been very good at telling a plus from a minus? "

― Andre Dubus III , House of Sand and Fog

16 " THE SUN IS warm upon my arms as I push the bright red lawn cutter that started with one pull of its rope and I smell benzine and that American scent of green grass that is cut in the heat. The engine is loud but still I hear the work of the najars upon the bungalow. The afternoon remains in their first workday, but already they have completed building the frame of the widow’s walk into the roof and I push the cutter from one end of the property to the next and I see them lay new boards of lumber across the structure and drive nails with their steel hammers in the sun. The tall grass falls away beneath my machine like dead soldiers, and I am grateful for the silly blue hat upon my head, for it keeps the skin there in the shade, and even my forehead and eyes are protected. "

― Andre Dubus III , House of Sand and Fog

17 " Lester wanted to rise up out of this like a cloud, to drift over the valley and shore to the Pacific, to dissolve into its huge green expanse like rain. "

― Andre Dubus III , House of Sand and Fog