"Train Dreams" Quotes
A man's life in the American West is vividly and poignantly depicted in this novella.
fiction | 116 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
Work was sometimes the best of him, sometimes the worst of him.
He wasn't sure he was alive, but he was sure he was in heaven.
He'd been given a soul and he didn't know what to do with it.
He'd come up in the world, and it had left him in the mud.
He had no sense of his parents, his siblings, and he could not conceive of any world outside this valley.
He'd never met anybody who'd seen anything like it.
He could tell when a wind was coming just by listening to the leaves.
He told himself he was going to find a woman and live with her in the mountains.
The only sounds were the wind in the trees and the water in the river.
The silence was vast enough to hurt his ears.
