Tremor Quotes

“To be integral and peopled in balance.”
― Teju Cole, Tremor

“I had not noticed before how every stretch of this route contains personal memories, how the city is like one of those movies shot in a single take from the window of a moving car.”
― Teju Cole, Tremor

“Something exists in spite of everything else we know to be true of the world. Life is hopeless but it is not serious.”
― Teju Cole, Tremor

“Who is to say the universe is hostile? All this information gathered up by the alert navigator and subtly interpreted made the ocean a friendly and readable book. He could tell when he was near an island or archipelago, when the water was fresher or saltier, when a storm was in the offing. For Mau the world was far more comprehensible than most people would ever know.”
― Teju Cole, Tremor

“Who is to say the universe is hostile? All this information gathered up by the alert navigator and subtly interpreted made the ocean a friendly and readable book. He could tell when he was near an island or archipelago, when the water was fresher or saltier, when a storm was in the offing. For Mau the world was far more comprehensible than most people would ever know. People like him show that a deeper intimacy with nature is possible and that this intimacy does not have to rely on the obliterative arrogance of Western culture.”
― Teju Cole, Tremor