An Unfinished Season Quotes

“The childhood of our parents is forever inscrutable, the cave within the cave of our own. The light’s too dim, the dancing shadows unreliable, fundamentally unstable, even the impromptu photographs and private letters somehow contrived.”
― Ward Just, An Unfinished Season

“one of the Italian hill communities, inhabitants of a region overrun again and again by alien peoples, Austrians, Hungarians, Serbs, Turks, Germans. The true test of character in that region was the ability to step outside one’s own identity, go beyond one’s roots to another realm altogether, a kind of transcendence. Such an ability required the severest sort of self-knowledge coupled with the will to survive. Your soul would be multilingual, not to mention your conscience.”
― Ward Just, An Unfinished Season