"Tree of Smoke" Quotes
"Tree of Smoke" follows a young CIA operative and his uncle as they navigate the chaos, moral ambiguity, and psychological toll of the Vietnam War.
fiction | 614 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
That’s the thing about time, it’s like a current. It wears away the streambed of your life, it wears away the streambed of your life and makes the channel deeper, more narrow.
A person who’s going to be a writer has to be a reader. And that means he’s got to be a reader, and so far as I know, all the time.
That’s the thing about forgiveness. It’s not something you give away and then it’s gone. It’s a living thing, and you have to feed it and care for it.
It’s not just what happens to you, but what you do with your life that matters.
The world is full of signals that we don’t perceive.
It’s a funny thing about truth-telling. You’re not sure you’re doing the right thing. You’re not sure it’s a good thing.
When you’re young, you have time, you have time, you have time. Now, you’ve got no time, you’ve got no time, you’ve got no time.
You can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube.
The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we’re not.
I think history is a kind of story we tell ourselves.
