Violet > Violet's Quotes

“She had given him up. That was the hard condition of his being and of all commerce between them.”
― David Malouf, Ransom

“He had entered the rough world of men, where a man's acts follow him wherever he goes in the form of story.”
― David Malouf, Ransom

“The bronze-haired avenger of his father's death, already filled with the fierce light of the future, is at sea and sailing fast for Troy.”
― David Malouf, Ransom

“However the story is told and elaborated, the raw shame of it will be with him now til his last breath.”
― David Malouf, Ransom