The-shipping-news Quote by Annie Proulx Download Open image ““The past bubbled out of his black mouth.”” — Annie Proulx ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare The-shipping-news Time
“Most people talk too much about the past. Let the past pass into the past.” — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
“The past was something that had happened to another version of himself, a version that could be lit and hurled away.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“He felt a strange urge, right then, just to put his head down and walk past, off into the night and never look back.… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“He was smiling and listening. So even if the "real past" and memories of it are completely different, he smiles without saying anything. And… — Sakura Tsukuba Copy Share Image
“It was funny, he thought, how the ruins of the past shaped everything that came after.” — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“And he'd said nothing or something that amounted to nothing, and I tongued this memory like a burn in my mouth until the bathwater… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“I've spent too much of my life trying to leave the past behind. But the past is a leech. Digs its head into you… — Barbara Nickless Copy Share Image
Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write. — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
“A kind of joyous hysteria moved into the room, everything flying before the wind, vehicles outside getting dented to hell, the crowd sweaty and… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
“.. that old, cold time on the mountain when they owned the world and nothing seemed wrong ..” — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
“The mountain pine beetle is a tiny creature that chews through a lodgepole’s bark, gouges out a hollow in the wood and lays its… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
“It was as if his eye were an ear and a crackle went through it each time he shot a look at the accordion.… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
“On the stairs an image came to him. Was love then like a bag of assorted sweets passed around from which one might choose… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
“The only cities were of ice, bergs with cores of beryl, blue gems within white gems, that some said gave off an odor of… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
“They say that doing ten sums a day prevents you from becoming senile. But by that argument bankers should be geniuses. That's not right.… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
“You stand there, braced. Cloud shadows race over the buff rock stacks as a projected film, casting a queasy, mottled ground rash. The air… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
“Thirty-six years old and this was the first time anybody ever said he'd done it right. Fog against the window like milk.” — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
“...The devil had long ago taken a shine to Tert Card, filled him like a cream horn with itch and irritation. His middle name… — E. Annie Proulx (Author Copy Share Image
“The long horizon, the lunging, clotted sea like a swinging door opening, closing, opening.” — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
“What do you think,' she said. Her voice was rapid. 'You want to marry me, don't you? Don't you think you want to marry… — E. Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
“You all know we are only passing by. We only walk over these stones a few times, our boats float a little while and… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
“The tide was still on the ebb in that complex swell and fall of water against land, as though a great heart in the… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
“All the complex wires of life were stripped out and he could see the structure of life. Nothing but rock and sea, the tiny… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
