Legends of the North Cascades Quotes

“Bereaved, we were but orphans, dispossessed, impoverished in our solitude. Our only buffer against the cold, cruel world was one another.”
― Jonathan Evison, Legends of the North Cascades

“The stakes are higher than you may ever know. Your life, man, it’s a reflection of everything. Everything that ever was. You’re a link in the chain, but it’s more than a chain. It’s like a whole gigantic fabric. A huge quilt. And God, God’s like the needle. God sews it all together. God connects us. It’s a crazy ass quilt, and every square is different, see, but God connects us.”
― Jonathan Evison, Legends of the North Cascades

“We were serving some purpose beyond ourselves, though the nature of that purpose became more and more elusive every day. We were blunt instruments in the wrong hands-hammers, that’s what we were. Hammers for the Coalition, hammers for the politicians, hammers for all the shoppers back in America. And so we hammered. We hammered cities to dust. We hammered the shit out of those poor sonsofbitches—men, women, children, didn’t matter. Because when you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
― Jonathan Evison, Legends of the North Cascades

“The elders assured S’tka and her people that their destiny lay somewhere out of sight, beyond the mountains, and beyond the ice. They told them if they listened, they could hear it on the frozen wind. Oh, how they dazzled with their hyperbole, how they hypnotized the people with their vagaries, all their grand promises of a new home, somewhere knowable, someplace more kindly and promising beyond the far-flung horizon.”
― Jonathan Evison, Legends of the North Cascades

“Are you a policeman?” asked the young boy. “Nope,” said Dave. “Then why are you dressed like that?” “I’m a marine.” “Like an army man?” “Better,” said Dave. “But kinda like that.” “I’m gonna live above a gas station when I grow up,” the boy announced. “You might as well aim high,” said Dave.”
― Jonathan Evison, Legends of the North Cascades

“The sad reality of the world was that nobody was quite as resilient as a child, and nobody paid a higher price for it.”
― Jonathan Evison, Legends of the North Cascades

“Funny how the memories he wanted to summon were so elusive, but the unwelcome ones were relentless.”
― Jonathan Evison, Legends of the North Cascades