The Drought Quotes

“Most known motives are so suspect these days that I doubt whether the hidden ones are any better. All the same,”
― J.G. Ballard, The Drought

“He looked at the craft beached around him. Shadowless in the vertical sunlight, their rounded forms seemed to have been eroded of all but a faint residue of their original identities, like ghosts in a distant universe where drained images lay in the shallows of some lost time. The”
― J.G. Ballard, The Drought

“It seems we have a knack of turning everything we touch into sand and dust. We’ve even sown the sea with its own salt.”
― J.G. Ballard, The Drought

“Although frowned upon by the Reverend Johnstone and his captains, these visits across the dunes served a useful purpose, introducing into their sterile lives, Ransom believed, those random elements, that awareness of chance and time, without which they would soon have lost all sense of identity.”
― J.G. Ballard, The Drought

“However, it was not this that held them together, but their awareness that only with each other could they keep alive some faint shadow of their former personalities, whatever their defects, and arrest the gradual numbing of sense and identity that was the unseen gradient of the dune limbo.”
― J.G. Ballard, The Drought

“Five years earlier, when Ransom had spent his first weekends out on the lake, rebuilding his world from scratch from the materials of water, wind and sunlight, Philip Jordan had been the only person he could incorporate into his new continuum.”
― J.G. Ballard, The Drought