The Canal House Quotes

“When there’s too much grief to handle, part of your brain clicks off and you concentrate on the small details that surround you. At the end of time, when Judgment Day finally arrives, a great many of us will be rearranging the cereal boxes in the pantry or cleaning out the shower stall.”
― Mark Lee, The Canal House: A Gripping Literary War Novel of Love and Impossible Choices in a Military Zone

“Standing in the bright sunshine, I realized that I had never come back to any of my photographs. I had become an absurd American movie, cutting quickly from one image to another, but never stopping to focus on one thing. For the first time I had looped back—and here was my old photograph, wrapped in a blue blanket while the gulls spiraled overhead.”
― Mark Lee, The Canal House: A Gripping Literary War Novel of Love and Impossible Choices in a Military Zone