Deep River Quotes

“With those you love, you accept that there are only two ways you will not get hurt when you lose them. You stop loving them or you die first.”
― Karl Marlantes, Deep River

“Christians only want Christmas not Good Friday.” She went into the whiny voice again. ““God is bad, boo-hoo.” She looked him in the eye. “God is the center of the world, not you. You grow up.”
― Karl Marlantes, Deep River

“But men did what was expected of them or they weren’t men. It was that simple.”
― Karl Marlantes, Deep River

“Then, like a seaborne Sisyphus, the ship clawed to the top of the next towering wave, as the sailors fought gravity and slippery decks to maintain their balance and their lives.”
― Karl Marlantes, Deep River

“He found himself looking at the old snag. It had once been nearly three hundred feet tall; then one day everything changed. The tree became a snag. Eventually, the snag would decay, fall to the ground, and become a nurse log for new trees. The new trees would grow, some to be three hundred feet tall, some to perish for lack of sunlight, and maybe someday there might even be another lightning strike and another snag. He’d first seen the snag as something dead. Now, he saw constant change and life everlasting.”
― Karl Marlantes, Deep River

“But now, they faced this green-gray hell of howling wind and numbing water.”
― Karl Marlantes, Deep River

“Sometimes being manipulated for your own good felt like being loved.”
― Karl Marlantes, Deep River

“The conflict between labor and capital, spun out so elegantly in political and economic theories, was fundamentally about hunger outlasting avarice.”
― Karl Marlantes, Deep River

“Finland was ruled by Sweden until it was ceded to Russia in 1809 after a bloody war, so a sizable minority spoke Swedish.”
― Karl Marlantes, Deep River

“Being an experienced fisherman was only part of staying alive. Knowing the bottom and the currents where you were fishing was the other.”
― Karl Marlantes, Deep River

“Sisu and love got her through.”
― Karl Marlantes, Deep River