"The Dig" Quotes
"The Dig" by Cynan Jones is a haunting narrative about a man who discovers a disturbing skeleton while digging on his farm, unraveling a dark and mysterious past.
fiction | 159 pages | Published in 2014
Quotes
The earth does not give up its dead easily, they said. But it does. It does.
Sudden death is always a possibility. The trick is to make the best of the rest of it.
The dig was a means of escape, a means of forgetting.
The ground is like memory. It holds things.
The present will always be what it is. The past is negotiable.
The earth will keep things hidden until it wants them found.
Every dig has its own language of loss.
The dig was a battle against time, against the inevitable.
The dig was both a search for answers and a search for meaning.
The dig was an act of excavation, both physical and emotional.
