Finding Karawala Quotes

“But no one knows anything about you, and Washington keeps telling everyone you are what you say you are. That's impossible. No one here is what they say they are.”
― Pirate Lanford, Finding Karawala

“There before me, staring back from bottomless blackness, was I without my self. On all fours, I stared into my eyes. I came closer, and we kissed. Who knows me best? I am only water.”
― Pirate Lanford, Finding Karawala

“We who live in the civilized world are accustomed to a background roar that never goes away. It is the pounding of our machinery in the chest of the city, and it is the incessant blood of traffic rushing through the streets.
Here the silence never goes away. It is the foundation of all sound. One can hear into the jungle through the silence much farther than one can see into it through the trees.”
― Pirate Lanford, Finding Karawala

“She was the dawn and the sea and the sky, and every color ever seen by every sailor ever sailed.

McBeth Johnson, the day he fell in love.”
― Pirate Lanford, Finding Karawala