Finn Quotes

“Under a low sun, pursued by fish and mounted by crows and veiled in a loud swarm of bluebottle flies, the body comes down the river like a deadfall stripped clean.”
― Jon Clinch , Finn

“Among all of the powers and principalities, there is none on earth so mighty as a man's unsatisfied desire.”
― Jon Clinch, Finn

“This place has been here from the beginning and it will be here in the end: Adams County, hacked from the wilderness by naming's brutal baptism long before Illinois was a state or a territory or even so much as a dream.”
― Jon Clinch, Finn

“He is between worlds, this boy. Between the river and the town, between the hogshead and the house, between the taint of his mother and the stain of his pap. He knows some things that he can never say, not even to himself.”
― Jon Clinch, Finn

“I didn't mean any harm.' For who truly means harm in all this world.”
― Jon Clinch, Finn

“When he is done he feels not a burden removed from his shoulders and not an easing of his load but a strange sagging sense of disappointment, as if...he has deflated something whose power might have raised him up.”
― Jon Clinch, Finn

“Everything changes, he thinks. The woman is gone and the world turns.”
― Jon Clinch, Finn