The Sun Walks Down Quotes

“Similarly important: the sun doesn’t set in Swedish, it walks down.”
― Fiona McFarlane, The Sun Walks Down

“Englishwoman”
― Fiona McFarlane, The Sun Walks Down

“For now he studies what he thinks may be his final true desert sunset. The sky burns and leaps, it gilds and candles—every drenched inch of it, until the sun falls below the ranges. Then the sky darkens. The red returns, stealthy now, with green above and lilac higher still. It deepens into purple. Here’s the strange new cloud, hovering in its own grey light. Then night comes in, black and blue and grey and white, and the moon in its green bag swings heavy over the red nation of the ranges.”
― Fiona McFarlane, The Sun Walks Down

“To this, Mrs Rapp responds, as if quoting somebody, ‘Anything that embodies itself with freedom seeks a rounded shape.”
― Fiona McFarlane, The Sun Walks Down

“Failure is a stooped, pale figure with an open mouth and swollen eyes.”
― Fiona McFarlane, The Sun Walks Down

“They call a painting of a winter field Solitude; Karl would call it Winter Field. He wants to do what comes easily to him, which is to be a body encountering the world. He wants sensory experience first, then emotion, then intellect”
― Fiona McFarlane, The Sun Walks Down

“Skill gives you power: you can see the future because your skill will make it happen.”
― Fiona McFarlane, The Sun Walks Down

“The world, with its endless distinctions, wasn’t a place you lived inside of, as he’d thought; instead, you walked and ran and bowled upon it, individually, as Henry did. The most important division, Billy came to feel, was that between talent and mediocrity: a boy was either good at cricket, or he wasn’t.”
― Fiona McFarlane, The Sun Walks Down