The Land in Winter Quotes

“And though he was not much given to thinking about love, did not much care for the word, thought it had been worn to a kind of uselessness, gutted by the advertising men and the crooners, and even by politicians, some of whom seemed, recently, to have discovered it, it struck him that in the end it might just mean a willingness to imagine another’s life. To do that. To make the effort.”
― Andrew Miller, The Land in Winter

“what extent was mind just circumstance? Would he begin to think like Mr. Earle, to become like him? But mind must also be the history of circumstance, and his history and Mr. Earle’s could have very few touching points.”
― Andrew Miller, The Land in Winter

“I’m going to be someone who thinks.”
― Andrew Miller, The Land in Winter

“Home, it turned out, had been the perfect preparation for not being at home.”
― Andrew Miller, The Land in Winter

“So much dying and nobody really knowing what it was for.”
― Andrew Miller, The Land in Winter

“Nothing worse than a woman who was trying.”
― Andrew Miller, The Land in Winter

“Time would level it out, for that, he had learned (quite recently), was what time did.”
― Andrew Miller, The Land in Winter