A Country Road, A Tree Quotes

“Too much store had been set upon the destination. Continuance here, inhabitance -- that had barely crossed her mind. Now they're stuck with the day-to-day of it, for as far as the eye can see, and it might as well be eternity; and they are tangled together, twining around each other; they are all elbows, feet and claws.”
― Jo Baker, A Country Road, A Tree

“When it happens, there is nothing grand about it, nothing sublime. ... There's no pathetic fallacy here.”
― Jo Baker, A Country Road, A Tree

“And when he surfaces to a cramped hand, a crick in the neck, the sunlight shifted across the floor, a sore blink, he knows that even to have written this little is an excess, it is an overflowing, an excretion. Too many words. There are just too many words. Nobody wants them; nobody needs them. And still they keep on, keep on, keep on coming..”
― Jo Baker, A Country Road, A Tree

“He stares now at the three words he has written.They are ridiculous. Writing is ridiculous. A sentence, any sentence, is absurd. Just the idea of it; jam one word up against another, shoulder-to-shoulder, jaw-to-jaw; hem them in with punctuation so they can't move an inch. And then hand that over to someone else to peer at, and expect something to be communicated, something understood. It's not just pointless. It is ethically suspect.”
― Jo Baker, A Country Road, A Tree