Sweetland Quotes

“Through the month of December, the radio was slowly strangled by Christmas Carols”
― Michael Crummey, Sweetland

“He hated confronting those lost moments, being presented with some detail from his past and having to look on it like a stranger. It made his life feel like a made-up thing. A net full of holes.”
― Michael Crummey, Sweetland

“The sparse choir murdered a few hymns”
― Michael Crummey, Sweetland

“The Priddles were Irish twins, the second born ten months after the first, and”
― Michael Crummey, Sweetland

“The plateau was dotted with massive granite boulders that Jesse claimed were called erratics, dropped there by retreating glaciers at the end of the last ice age.”
― Michael Crummey, Sweetland

“He’d almost forgotten how much he loved the cigarettes, what a poisonous comfort they were.”
― Michael Crummey, Sweetland

“If you scald your arse, Sweetland’s mother used to say, you got to learn to sit on your blisters. He said, “I got what was coming to me, I expect.”
― Michael Crummey, Sweetland

“If you scald your arse, Sweetland’s mother used to say, you got to learn to sit on your blisters. He said, “I got what was coming”
― Michael Crummey, Sweetland