"Drop City" Quotes
A group of 1970s California hippies attempt to create a utopian commune in the Alaskan wilderness, only to confront harsh realities and clashing ideals.
fiction | 497 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
It was a time of innocence, a time of peace, a time of love.
The only way to get anywhere was to start off in the wrong direction and then find your way back.
The world's a better place without you, he thought.
He knew what a woman wanted, and he knew what a woman needed, and he knew that a woman didn't want to be told what to do.
The American way, he thought. The great, wonderful, hopeful American way. The American way of death.
He'd said he'd get a job in Alaska and she'd said she'd go with him, but she was only eighteen and didn't know better.
He was a man who'd always gotten by on his looks, his charm, his ability to talk his way out of anything.
The sixties, he thought. The sixties were over with.
She was convinced that she was the only one there who was in full control of her life.
He was a man who'd always gotten what he wanted by sheer force of will.
