The Excellent Lombards Quotes

“The harvest was a wild living thing that you were trying to tame while all the while it was dragging you behind, arms out, flailing, in the chase. But here was the miracle: Despite the chaos, the lack of planning, the bad feeling between Sherwood and my father, there was also an overriding unity of purpose, a reverence for the family history, a love for the soil within the property lines.”
― Jane Hamilton, The Excellent Lombards

“There were moments, I could now see, when it was understandable to completely go off your rocker. The easiest and most reasonable and maybe proper thing to do in the world, to lose hold of yourself.”
― Jane Hamilton, The Excellent Lombards

“...the other's self, that enormous hulking thing each possessed, that a self of course is not inconsequential. p124”
― Jane Hamilton, The Excellent Lombards