Sigmund Brouwer > Quotes

“Yet truth is a diamond; even mishandles, smeared with grease, or buried in mud, it cannot be marred and waits for one with a cloth to polish it clean.”
― Sigmund Brouwer, Broken Angel: A Novel

“I hope it doesn't get worse. But even if it gets worse, I won't regret it. I would rather be dead than live in the factory anymore. Not much difference as they just want you to work to death anyway. And you can't even think there or talk. but I have to think. I have to talk. I have to talk about what I think.”
― Sigmund Brouwer, Broken Angel: A Novel

“Are you insane? You still not convinced that chances are better with me?”
― Sigmund Brouwer, Flight of Shadows: A Novel

“Outside, most people knew that decades ago, the religious fundamentalists lost the ability to transform society when they became a political movement. Their boycotts and protests were commonplace, any outcry against anything beyond the narrow range of what they saw as biblically acceptable was dismissed as a knee-jerk reaction.”
― Sigmund Brouwer, Broken Angel: A Novel