West Quotes

“He began to feel that he might have broken his life on this journey, that he should have stayed at home with the small and the familiar instead of being out here with the large and the unknown.”
― Carys Davies, West

“Sometimes, to encourage himself, he laid his mouth against its soft, leaflike ears and whispered, “Remember, there are no gods. We have ourselves and nothing else.” As he headed”
― Carys Davies, West

“In eight more months, we will have four new mules and it will be summer.”
― Carys Davies, West

“The compass the fur trader had given him he had no use for because he had the music of the river and the bright configuration of the stars, but he carried it in his hand because he liked it for its beauty and the suspicion that it had some secret power of its own the fur trader wasn’t telling him about; that it was alive in some way. He liked the way the tiny needle quivered beneath the clear covering, like his own heart when he was out stalking or waiting with a hook for a fish to bite.”
― Carys Davies, West

“Old Woman From A Distance still wasn't sure what to think.
One thing he was sure of though: there was no Great Spirit. No Big Man in the Sky looking out for them. If there had been once, there wasn't anymore.
...Sometimes, to encourage himself, he laid his mouth against its soft, leaflike ears and whispered, "Remember, there are no gods. We have ourselves and nothing else.”
― Carys Davies, West