A Long Way From Home Quotes

“What may seem to be the signs of madness might be understood by someone familiar with alchemical literature as an encryption whose function is to insist that our mother country is a foreign land whose language we have not yet earned the right to speak.”
― Peter Carey, A Long Way From Home

“What may seem to be the signs of madness might be understood by someone familiar with alchemical literature as an encryption who function is to insist that our mother country is a foreign land whose language we have not yet earned the right to speak.”
― Peter Carey, A Long Way From Home

“no, I thought, only what it makes you do, clawing at the trees, splintering the bark like a tomcat, the blind and violent need of it, a joy, but who would not want to be relieved of it. I pity”
― Peter Carey, A Long Way from Home

“Sex makes a man dishonest with himself, as is well known. I feared the slippery ambiguity of false feeling, of expediency, of things not being exactly true.”
― Peter Carey, A Long Way from Home