"The Shipping News" Quotes

There’s nothing wrong with what I do. I make passengers feel safe and happy. Admirable goals in these times.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

You got to be tough and ruthless and know what you want, and you gotta go straight for it and never give up no matter what it is.

You don't need to like your father or to love him or even forgive him, but you do need to be alright with him. He's your father. You've got to come to terms with that.

It was a small operation, and there were days when the news was late, missed connections, a broken camera, a fuzzy shot. And then people became angry. The telegraph operators at Port Tickle and Grassy Bay. It seemed, in many ways, such as a voracious Durrell who had begun in the endeavor with firm faith that newspapers must be sent, daily, to the outports.

I guess she just rambled on, like that boat of hers, but unlike that boat of hers went from point A to point A.

But this is the good thing about life: She never sleeps.

Do you know how complicated it is to make a whole boat and then lug it up to Chuckie and set it adrift?

We don’t afterlife to us, we do afterlife to them.

What they are Fling from is the darkening land itself, not animals, not people, not laws.