Fallen Land Quotes

“You like to think that people, in general, and I mean on the scale of generations, are learning from their mistakes, getting better. But with what all I seen, I don't know if I could believe that.”
― Taylor Brown, Fallen Land

“You die down there, you better hope I live a real long time. Because that's all the goddamn peace you're gonna get.”
― Taylor Brown, Fallen Land

“They were sitting underneath a large oak. He lowered his head between his knees and buried his face in his palms. He tried to stop the sadness from welling out of him. She rubbed a slow circle between his shoulder blades with her palm. He pressed his wet face against hers. He remembered the soft cheek of his sister and mother, both lost so long ago, and the rough cheek of his father, too, whose face he could hardly remember. Everything before this shore like a myth to him, unreal, all his memories sunken in the earth so dark underneath the peat. But this, that cheek—it went to the core of him, to all he’d lost.”
― Taylor Brown, Fallen Land