The Canning Season Quotes

“And, I often think, the truth isn't good or bad, it's just the truth.”
― Polly Horvath, The Canning Season

“When you're a child you never figure a grownup is going to be jealous of you. It's the grownups who seem to have everything. Children give adults far too much credit.”
― Polly Horvath, The Canning Season

“People can be hurt so badly that they choose to just stop in their tracks.”
― Polly Horvath, The Canning Season

“I think part of her feared that if Mother could leave her that way, she must be unlovable. And of course, she wasn't.”
― Polly Horvath, The Canning Season

“She was alone in the stillness of the universe a little while before all the confusion began. It was if she could hear it ticking, check in on the life at the very center of it, its wellspring that everyone somehow knows, before it was covered by noise.”
― Polly Horvath, The Canning Season

“It disguises itself as motor vehicle knowledge, but really it's physics, which any other time would be fascinating but not right now, not while you're trying to learn to drive.”
― Polly Horvath, The Canning Season