October in the Earth Quotes

“it’s not the view that’s beautiful or ugly. Maybe what counts is the way you look at it.”
― Olivia Hawker, October in the Earth

“It’s love that holds the world together, even when everything tries its best to fall apart.”
― Olivia Hawker, October in the Earth

“The End knew no ending.”
― Olivia Hawker, October in the Earth

“Or maybe, after all, it’s not the view that’s beautiful or ugly. Maybe what counts is the way you look at it.”
― Olivia Hawker, October in the Earth

“Sometimes I would catch a glimpse of a tattered green curtain in a window or a yellow cat sitting on a roof, or a line of some small child’s dresses hung out to dry in the unforgiving sun, and some great, invisible hand would take hold of my heart—and then the sight would fall behind, gone in a blink the way things always go, and I’d be left swallowing down that sudden ache, asking myself why the vision had affected me, why it still rang like an echo in my mind, miles down the track.”
― Olivia Hawker, October in the Earth

“The cops were convinced that anyone who rode a freight train and looked a little shabby must be a thief and a murderer, come to town in single-minded pursuit of law-breaking and general mayhem.”
― Olivia Hawker, October in the Earth

“one of us, a no-good wife for another. Or someone you love dies and leaves you all alone. You lose your job—your place in the world, your standing, your respect. That’s why all of us are out here hitching on a train. The stories are different, but the hurt’s the same, when you really get down to the heart of matters.”
― Olivia Hawker, October in the Earth

“No one ever tells you how easy it is to up and go. Just like that, I was free.”
― Olivia Hawker, October in the Earth

“Let me tell you something,” Anne-Celeste said. “It’s the one bit of wisdom I’ve learned in all my years. Folks that take from you without ever giving . . . they don’t love you none, no matter what they say.”
― Olivia Hawker, October in the Earth