The Last Crossing Quotes

“It might be high summer all about but inside me everything is fall. The lonesomeness of a sad, slow closing of days, knowing frost is nigh and wind needling through the cabin chinks is just around the bend. That's me, right now.”
― Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Last Crossing

“Not to do as the child wishes would be wrong because he is born on a path, and it would be evil, a crime against nature to make him deny his spirit.”
― Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Last Crossing

“had he known such cold; it drew heat out of the body like a leech draws blood. Forehead, eyes, cheeks ached from the frigid, sucking mouth.”
― Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Last Crossing

“She'd whisper to me to take my tiny piece of happiness, hold its honey in my mouth until it melts away.”
― Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Last Crossing

“Do not follow your present course. It is a dead end. The dead end of the perfect English gentleman.”
― Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Last Crossing