Damon Galgut, Arctic Summer
"Of what earthly use were novels? How did they help anybody?"
11 Quotes
"What I don’t understand about your type is that you want to emulate the other side. You kick up such a commotion about being different, and all you want is to be the same."
Damon Galgut, Arctic Summer
"A silence followed, while the two men contemplated dying for love."
Damon Galgut, Arctic Summer
"No emotion was supposed to cross the great divide of class. Affection could erase all hierarchy; in this was the danger, and the delight."
Damon Galgut, Arctic Summer
"The Indians were inside their bodies, he decided, in a way that the British were not. His own flesh impeded his spirit."
Damon Galgut, Arctic Summer
"What he sensed more than anything else was kindness – a kindness of a human and immediate sort. It was surprising how very radical this simple emotion could be."
Damon Galgut, Arctic Summer
"That echo. It played in his head at unexpected moments, repeating certain sounds and making nonsense of them. But could you remember an echo? Memory itself was like another kind of echo, everything duplicating endlessly, in shadow versions of itself."
Damon Galgut, Arctic Summer
"All of them would understand, as he did now, that he had crossed a line in himself, he had left their world behind, the decent world of tea parties and suburban witticisms."
Damon Galgut, Arctic Summer
"He feared at certain moments that the only new knowledge he would take away from this country was learning how to swim and use the telephone."
Damon Galgut, Arctic Summer
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