A Pass in the Grampians Quotes

“Though it was eighteen years since they had seen her, there was no mistaking Bella now. She might have walked out of the door last week, with her cheap cardboard case finished to look like leather, and her impudent copper hair puffed out in front. There was less hair now, and a good deal more flesh, but it was the same ruddy face and the same style of walk, Bella carried her curves like a queen.”
― Nan Shepherd, A Pass in the Grampians

“For the sheep farmer, seventy years of intercourse had made the moor sit to him more closely than the most supple of garments... He had made his covenant with the moor: it had bogged him and drenched him, deceived, scorched, numbed him with cold, tested his endurance, memory and skill; until a large part of his nature was so interpenetrated with its nature that apart from it he would have lost reality. His love for it indeed was beyond all covenant. Like his love for Jenny, it had the quality of life itself, absolute and uncovenanted.”
― Nan Shepherd, A Pass in the Grampians