A Place Like This Quotes

“I’m alone with the ghost of the swamp, somewhere near the weeping willows.”
― Steven Herrick, A Place Like This

“It was a good apple too. A good apple, picked by a madman on a full moon night.”
― Steven Herrick, A Place Like This

“But when I look at this farm I keep thinking it's not whether I have the guts to go but if I have the guts to stay.”
― Steven Herrick, A Place Like This

“She taught me what's important, and what isn't. And I've never forgotten. And that's what mothers do, I say.”
― Steven Herrick, A Place Like This

“I'm not sure if my dream is a dream, or a nightmare.”
― Steven Herrick, A Place Like This

“I'm glad she left me the kids. I'd be lost without them. Lost and bitter. With them here, I'm only bitter.”
― Steven Herrick, A Place Like This

“Our great adventure ran out of petrol and stopped on this farm.”
― Steven Herrick, A Place Like This

“And I feel like a real Dad when I read to her at night. She won't sleep without one story, at least.”
― Steven Herrick, A Place Like This

“I walked out of his room sure I'd said the right thing maybe not as a father but as a Dad. I'd said the right thing, for once in my life.”
― Steven Herrick, A Place Like This

“I know that today, with a full tank, and with Annabel, that it's time to go.”
― Steven Herrick, A Place Like This

“I tell him about ... Jack and Annabel, smart and ready and I'm wondering where all that smart comes from and I figure some from parents, some from school, and some from a place inside you.”
― Steven Herrick, A Place Like This

“I tell him everything as we walk. Maybe so he won't be disappointed being born into a place like this.”
― Steven Herrick, A Place Like This

“Emma says after I was born I cried for days. She said I'd never shut up which is funny really because Dad says I never shut up now so maybe that's what happens, you get born and act the same your whole life.”
― Steven Herrick, A Place Like This

“She didn't have an answer for that. People like her only ever have questions.”
― Steven Herrick, A Place Like This

“I work hard in the orchard, not for the money anymore, but for something I can't explain. Something worth more than money.”
― Steven Herrick, A Place Like This

“Two Arts degrees does not a life make.”
― Steven Herrick, A Place Like This