Ill Wind Quotes

“Ghosts were not the spirits of the dead returning but the memories of the living not yet laid to rest.”
― Nevada Barr, Ill Wind

“Anna was too old to believe that people always lied for a reason. Mostly they lied because it was easy, felt good, or was habit.”
― Nevada Barr, Ill Wind

“Anna wondered what it was that was so alienating about cars. Somehow, more than any othter machine, they seemed to create a world of their own, a mobile pack-rat midden full of personal artifacts that utterly separated man from the natural environment he hurtled through.”
― Nevada Barr, Ill Wind

“Sharing beauty with total strangers made the world seem a friendlier place. In a culture dominated, if not by violence, then certainly by overheated reports of it dished out by a ratings-starved news media, it reassured her that the love of peace and natural order was still extant in the human soul.”
― Nevada Barr, Ill Wind

“To let the living see the dead were most certainly dead and so to let them go. Ghosts were not the spirits of the dead returning but the memories of the living not yet laid to rest.”
― Nevada Barr, Ill Wind

“In the lowlands around Lake Superior weather fronts, with their attendant changes in pressure, gave her headaches. Not so the mountain storms. Cracking thunder and flashing lightning filled the air with ozone till it tingled in the lungs, rejuvenating body and spirit much the same as the air at the seaside or near waterfalls.”
― Nevada Barr, Ill Wind

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― Nevada Barr, Ill Wind

“Widowhood conferred a mystery and status divorce lacked. The difference between returning World War II and Vietnam veterans. Both had been through a war, but a judgmental public conferred glory only on those who had been victimized in a socially acceptable manner.”
― Nevada Barr, Ill Wind

“In a culture dominated, if not by violence, then certainly by overheated reports of it dished out by a ratings-starved news media, it reassured her that the love of peace and natural order was still extant in the human soul.”
― Nevada Barr, Ill Wind

“Only humans, cursed with the knowledge of their own mortality and that of those whom they loved, were truly alone; each trapped in an ivory tower of skull and bone peeking out through the windows of the soul.     THE”
― Nevada Barr, Ill Wind