The Stone Road Quotes

“Some lives possess a trajectory. They’re a gunshot, aimed at birth.”
― Trent Jamieson, Day Boy

“Never understood why there weren’t Day Girls.’
‘Same as why there aren’t woman Masters.’
‘Mistresses,’ Anne corrects. I wince, feel heat in my face, hotter than the day.
‘The women come out all crooked; it breaks them, burns ’em up. Girls is a bit different, Dain says.’
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‘You know what I think?’ she says.
‘I guess I will in a moment.’
‘I think they’re frightened of us. And…’ I look in her eyes, dark as the sky in the middle of the night. ‘They should be.”
― Trent Jamieson, Day Boy

“Perhaps that’s all the Masters have left to them, an unchanging eternity, a dulling endless road. Perhaps that’s why they hold to their old feuds; they’ve so very little left that even hatred is a treasure.”
― Trent Jamieson, Day Boy

“You go on living, boy. Never know what tomorrow brings. Sometimes it’s a slap or a boot or a kiss or a scream. You live even though your heart feels torn out. You go on, because that’s what I’ve taught you, and some day you may not regret it or hate me. And, more importantly, you may not hate yourself.”
― Trent Jamieson, Day Boy

“When I’m gone, I’m telling you, just chuck my quiet bones by the road; it’s what they’ve known all these years, and I’m not the one for ceremony.”
― Trent Jamieson, Day Boy