The Country Will Bring Us No Peace Quotes

“The dip in the centre tells the story of how close we used to be and pushes us toward one another even when we don’t think about it.”
― Matthieu Simard, The Country Will Bring Us No Peace

“If her tiny body doesn't move, it means nothing exists, no gods, no stars above; it means you will never move again, and if you don't move again, it means you won't know what to do ever again, will never fathom how to live or why...the end of everything, you'll always be a fraction of your former self, until death takes you, you'll ever and always be a mere fraction, never whole.”
― Matthieu Simard, The Country Will Bring Us No Peace

“She faced down evil and death the way a child faces life and the future, oblivious to what it means but still making the most of it.”
― Matthieu Simard, The Country Will Bring Us No Peace

“It’s like swimming through an organism so much larger than ourselves, with no other purpose than to discover the forgetting and to search for an empty nook to crawl into, waiting for nature to forgive me.”
― Matthieu Simard, The Country Will Bring Us No Peace

“The memory of his thumb caressing my palm stabs me;”
― Matthieu Simard, The Country Will Bring Us No Peace