Country People Quotes

“They went back to listening to Watership Down, which they had started listening to in Ohio, and which had eventually brought resolution to their disagreements. And so, for the first weeks of their arrival in New England, they all vaguely carried with them the sense of seeing the world through the eyes of rabbits, emerging from their warren to roam the dew-damp paths, the world rich with the scent of roots and cut grass, and strange and perhaps dangerous creatures lurking at every corner.”
― Daniel Mason, Country People: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel

“fascist fonts.”
― Daniel Mason, Country People

“Miles’s first chapter was to be about peasants who transform into magical beings, his second chapter about murderous peasants, his third chapter about disloyal female peasants who cuckold their simpleton husbands, the fourth about flying peasants, and the fifth and sixth chapters about folktale theory, none of which he’d read yet. “I think,” he said, “Vermont is a little different.” “Okay,” said Kate. “But you know what I am saying. Rural people. Farming people. Country people. It does seem hard to write about the topic when you haven’t lived in the country yourself.” — Okay, said Miles, throwing back the last syrupy slurry of Cranberry-Hazelnut. Let’s go and find these sheep.”
― Daniel Mason, Country People

“But apparently”
― Daniel Mason, Country People

“By the time they departed”
― Daniel Mason, Country People

“There was something about him slightly more suggestible than other children”
― Daniel Mason, Country People

“What malicious god had invented such a disease?”
― Daniel Mason, Country People

“At a certain point”
― Daniel Mason, Country People

“Miles had never heard of training collars; back in California”
― Daniel Mason, Country People

“It is our habit”
― Daniel Mason, Country People

“…what we by day Lop overgrown”
― Daniel Mason, Country People

“Used to be”
― Daniel Mason, Country People

“It was very fortuitous”
― Daniel Mason, Country People