"The Lowland" Quotes
Two brothers' lives take divergent paths after one becomes involved in a political movement and the other moves to America.
fiction | 340 pages | Published in 2013
Quotes
He was aware of the distance that was beginning to form between them, the gulf that was opening up.
He had grown up believing in the permanence of things, in the solidness of the earth and the regularity of the seasons.
Man belongs to the earth, and it is in this belonging that the essence of his spirit lies.
He knew that the feeling that had been growing within him was love.
It was not just the physical distance that separated them; it was the distance between what they wanted from the world.
She had been up all night, unable to sleep, thinking about the life he had discovered for himself.
She missed him, but it was an ache that had now become part of her, like a phantom limb.
He was unprepared for the sense of liberation that he felt at having said goodbye to that part of his life.
Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.
But he had not been able to figure out how to live in the world.
