Quiet Until the Thaw Quotes

“How much strength must one people have?
And for how long must they have it?”
― Alexandra Fuller, Quiet Until the Thaw

“Once you went outlaw, then you were there, and that's where you stayed.”
― Alexandra Fuller, Quiet Until the Thaw

“Grief is an eroding wind. After grief has blown through, there is just the bedrock of a person.”
― Alexandra Fuller, Quiet Until the Thaw

“You can't insist on a life. A life insists on you.”
― Alexandra Fuller, Quiet Until the Thaw

“The people who exhaust themselves are the ones who run around the base of the mountain shrieking that theirs is the only real, proper way to the top.”
― Alexandra Fuller, Quiet Until the Thaw

“...but of course any time we become something other than ourselves, it is just death by another name.”
― Alexandra Fuller, Quiet Until the Thaw