"Elmet" Quotes
A family living on the margins of society in rural England is caught up in a cycle of violence and power struggles.
fiction | 311 pages | Published in 2017
Quotes
I think of that boy who was my brother, who has been gone for a long time now.
The land was too hard to be called arable.
I knew that if I asked my father, he would say that there was no such thing as a fair fight.
We all have to find a way to live in this world.
It's hard to know what to do when you have been made to feel small.
He was a man who knew how to be alone and how to make others be alone.
People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to settle this or that disturbance in their own minds.
There was no moon and the sky was full of stars.
I looked at the trees, which had been there long before I was born and would be there long after I was gone.
Sometimes I think I am a part of the land and sometimes I think the land is a part of me.





