faded yellow by the winter Quotes

“But the trees would remain with him and he would always mourn them. He had laboured for them all of his life. They would most likely die, although a few might remain, maybe the Black Twigs, like a tribe of vagabonds. He had seen it before; deserted properties where the house had been gone for decades, but the trees remained, obstinate apple, pear and lemon trees that would not yield.”
― Scott Pearce, faded yellow by the winter

“The air felt hot in Vic's lungs and he held it there. It was now an all-or-nothing game. He had the sense that he was alone, that all the Henrithvale players were alone; and in this tempest they must now sail for home or let the mast break and the hull fill with water and be damned.”
― Scott Pearce, faded yellow by the winter

“To abandon through choice or misfortune did not matter. Regardless of the catalyst, a wound was a wound. His mother did not die to rebuke him, to renounce him, he would not say that she did; but she did.”
― Scott Pearce, faded yellow by the winter

“Sentimentality is like religion and it demands a spiritual sufferance. It comes from frightened people.”
― Scott Pearce, faded yellow by the winter

“stubbornness in the face of calamity has no reward”
― Scott Pearce, faded yellow by the winter

“the seed of the apple doesn't turn out like the tree it came from. It becomes something of its own, sometimes better, sometimes not.”
― Scott Pearce, faded yellow by the winter

“God couldn't compete with football; a person could not worship in two different houses”
― Scott Pearce, faded yellow by the winter

“sometimes the living are beholden to the dead”
― Scott Pearce, faded yellow by the winter