The Rain Heron Quotes

“When Alec died I scraped a place lower than I’d ever gone before. Lower than seemed possible while still being alive. But somehow, in the sickening, emptying howl of his death, I held on to the lessons of my mistakes. I looked back to a cold beach, an even colder ocean. I remembered bloody waves. I remembered the freshening scent of pine trees, the dark height of a mountain, how a gun felt as it erupted in my fingers. Then I looked again at the boy, and approached him the way one should approach a broken child—with concern, a net of safety, and something like love.”
― Robbie Arnott, The Rain Heron