Mother Land Quotes

“it is weighted with omens, and the temperature, the sunlight, the trees and leaves,”
― Paul Theroux, Mother Land: A Piercing Literary Drama of a Narcissistic Mother's Viselike Hold on Her Family

“Je suis bien loin de chez moi.”
― Paul Theroux, Mother Land: A Piercing Literary Drama of a Narcissistic Mother's Viselike Hold on Her Family

“it Pecos Bill? Time is the arch-satirist! It was Gaston Bachelard.”
― Paul Theroux, Mother Land: A Piercing Literary Drama of a Narcissistic Mother's Viselike Hold on Her Family

“My secret was sad, but at least it was my secret; it was something to hold on to.”
― Paul Theroux, Mother Land: A Piercing Literary Drama of a Narcissistic Mother's Viselike Hold on Her Family

“I kept the letter those forty years as a talisman, as a goad, and as a rare example of the severe honesty of someone who seldom told the truth.”
― Paul Theroux, Mother Land: A Piercing Literary Drama of a Narcissistic Mother's Viselike Hold on Her Family