In the Great Quiet Quotes

“fracture my heart because hearts weren’t made to be whole all the days of one’s life.”
― Laura Vogt, In the Great Quiet

“Minds are as water,” she said. “Full of ripples and waves, evolving, wavering. Rainstorms splatter the surface of your mind, your memories and passions and hopes. Winds whip and change the structure of the water as your opinions and beliefs change. Fires, always burning inside. So you see, like the body, sometimes minds need mending.”
― Laura Vogt, In the Great Quiet

“There shall never be another season of silence, my ma quoted, until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.”
― Laura Vogt, In the Great Quiet

“You don’t have to understand my choices to support me.”
― Laura Vogt, In the Great Quiet

“I’d never much respected rules. And that was what scared me. Not prophecies of blood or ruin, but my thirst for so much, for everything, for something of my own.”
― Laura Vogt, In the Great Quiet

“You suppose that’s what friendship is?” I said. “To commit to figuring everything out together”
― Laura Vogt, In the Great Quiet

“salt”
― Laura Vogt, In the Great Quiet

“marriage wasn’t something chosen once, but daily.”
― Laura Vogt, In the Great Quiet

“Friends keep at it, through all the tricky bits.”
― Laura Vogt, In the Great Quiet

“I’d never viewed him as the one wounded, as he’d bullied those smaller than him, but I supposed pain was a cycle that never stopped turning.”
― Laura Vogt, In the Great Quiet

“Memory was a lost place—distorted with time, forever ungraspable.”
― Laura Vogt, In the Great Quiet

“You suppose that’s what friendship is?” I said. “To commit to figuring everything out together, to not flee when life gets hard.”
― Laura Vogt, In the Great Quiet

“Where the Indian passed in dignity”
― Laura Vogt, In the Great Quiet

“I’d hauled barrels of water from the creek to sell for twenty cents a ladle,”
― Laura Vogt, In the Great Quiet

“History”
― Laura Vogt, In the Great Quiet