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Days Without End (Days Without End #1) QUOTES

Days Without End (Days Without End #1) QUOTES

1 " I guess love laughs at history a little. "

― Sebastian Barry , Days Without End (Days Without End #1)

2 " But I had no idea what I looked like. Children may feel epic and large to theyselves and yet be only scraps to view. "

― Sebastian Barry , Days Without End (Days Without End #1)

3 " with ringworm, lice bites, and a million bugs. Men so sick they are dying "

― Sebastian Barry , Days Without End (Days Without End #1)

4 " Everything bad gets shot at in America, says John Cole, and everything good too. "

― Sebastian Barry , Days Without End (Days Without End #1)

5 " His people had hogs there till the bottom fell out of hogs. The bottom was always falling out of something in America far as I could see. So it was with the world, restless, kind of brutal. Always going on. Not waiting for no man. "

― Sebastian Barry , Days Without End (Days Without End #1)

6 " The bottom was always falling out of something in America far as I could see. "

― Sebastian Barry , Days Without End (Days Without End #1)

7 " Men so sick they are dying of death. "

― Sebastian Barry , Days Without End (Days Without End #1)

8 " In the darkness as we lie side by side John Cole's left hand snakes over under the sheets and takes a hold of my right hand. We listen to the cries of the night revellers outside and hear the horses tramping along the ways. We're holding hands then like lovers who have just met or how we imagine lovers might be in the unknown realm where lovers act as lovers without concealment. "

― Sebastian Barry , Days Without End (Days Without End #1)

9 " It’s a dark thing when the world sets no value on you and your kin, and then Death comes stalking in, in his bloody boots”. "

― Sebastian Barry , Days Without End (Days Without End #1)

10 " This (white settlers) was the section of humanity that was favored in that place, the Indians had no place no more there. Their tickets of passage were rescinded and the bailiffs of God took back the papers of their soles. "

― Sebastian Barry , Days Without End (Days Without End #1)

11 " Indians look very puzzled, surprised and offended to be shot but they go to the wall with noble mien I must allow. You can’t have nothing good in war without you punishing the guilty, the sergeant says with a savage air and no one says nothing against that. John Cole whispers to me that most times that sergeant he just wrong but just now and then he’s right and he’s right this time. I guess I’m thinking this is true. We get drunk then and the sergeant is clutching his belly all evening and then everything is blotted out till you awake in the bright early morning needing a piss and then it all floods back into your brain what happened and it makes your heart yelp like a dog. "

― Sebastian Barry , Days Without End (Days Without End #1)

12 " A man’s memory might have only a hundred clear days in it and he has lived thousands. Can’t do much about that. We have our store of days and we spend them like forgetful drunkards. "

― Sebastian Barry , Days Without End (Days Without End #1)

13 " We have our store of days and we spend them like forgetful drunkards. "

― Sebastian Barry , Days Without End (Days Without End #1)

14 " Time was not something then we thought of as an item that possessed an ending, but something that would go on forever, all rested and stopped in that moment. Hard to say what I mean by that. You look back at all the endless years when you never had that thought. I am doing that now as I write these words in Tennessee. I am thinking of the days without end of my life. And it is not like that now. "

― Sebastian Barry , Days Without End (Days Without End #1)

15 " Then rain began to fall in an extravagant tantrum. High up in mountain country though we were, every little river became a huge muscled snake, and the water wanted to find out everything, "

― Sebastian Barry , Days Without End (Days Without End #1)

16 " Things that give you heart are rare enough, better note them in your head when you find them and not forget. "

― Sebastian Barry , Days Without End (Days Without End #1)

17 " SPRING COMES INTO Massachusetts with her famous flame. God’s breath warming the winter out of things "

― Sebastian Barry , Days Without End (Days Without End #1)

18 " Empurpled rapturous hills I guess and the long day brushstroke by brushstroke enfeebling into darkness and then the fires blooming on the pitch plains. In the beautiful blue night there was plenty of visiting and the braves was proud and ready to offer a lonesome soldier a squaw for the duration of his passion. John Cole and me sought out a hollow away from prying eyes. Then with the ease of men who have rid themselves of worry we strolled among the Indian tents and heard the sleeping babies breathing and spied out the wondrous kind called by the Indians winkte or by white men berdache, braves dressed in the finery of squaws. John Cole gazes on them but he don’t like to let his eyes linger too long in case he gives offence. But he’s like the plough-horse that got the whins. All woken in a way I don’t see before. The berdache puts on men’s garb when he goes to war, this I know. Then war over it’s back to the bright dress. We move on and he’s just shaking like a cold child. Two soldiers walking under the bright nails of the stars. John Cole’s long face, long stride. The moonlight not able to flatter him because he was already beautiful. "

― Sebastian Barry , Days Without End (Days Without End #1)

19 " They say we are creatures raised by God above the animals but any man that has lived knows that’s damned lies. "

― Sebastian Barry , Days Without End (Days Without End #1)

20 " We were two wood-shavings of humanity in a rough world. "

― Sebastian Barry , Days Without End (Days Without End #1)