Sufferance Quotes

“I've been pulling up the wood crosses and replacing them with limestone slabs that I pry out of the dry riverbed in the belief that the children buried here deserve better than having their graves marked with the talisman of the cult that killed them.”
― Thomas King, Sufferance

“Today, I'll simply wander. Head off in one direction or another and keep walking. Until I feel like stopping.”
― Thomas King, Sufferance

“Real stand off," Florence reported over coffee. "Almost had a hockey game on our hands.”
― Thomas King, Sufferance

“We spend our waking moments," he said at last, "trying to be successful, because we can't think of anything else to do.”
― Thomas King, Sufferance

“Maribelle Wegman is known as the widow Wegman. Married four times. Three dead husbands. Not her fault, but having managed the hat trick already, she has been given the trophy to keep.”
― Thomas King, Sufferance

“As I pass the Plaza Hotel with its beaux arts facade, I run into Bob Loomis coming out the front door. Loomis looks slightly startled, as though he's been caught voting NDP.”
― Thomas King, Sufferance