The Swan Gondola Quotes

“Hester, meanwhile, says we should live all of life back to front. We should be born old and age younger. Our baptism should be a ritual of our funeral. We should die as infants, content in our mothers' arms, having lost all our learning and all sense of disappointment. If only we could die, she says, not knowing we'd ever grieved.”
― Timothy Schaffert, The Swan Gondola

“They need to connect with the earth, to tether themselves to this place they so want to leave, because they need someplace like home.”
― Timothy Schaffert, The Swan Gondola

“you should've fought to be at her side. People like you and me, we gotta fight tooth and nail, cradle to grave.”
― Timothy Schaffert, The Swan Gondola

“There's nothing more fierce than an Omaha nun. They've got shotguns tucked away in those habits. In a frontier town, you can't fend off evil with a crucifix.”
― Timothy Schaffert, The Swan Gondola