"Waterland" Quotes
"Waterland" by Graham Swift is a meditative novel in which history teacher Tom Crick recounts his family's dark past in the English Fens while grappling with personal and regional decline.
fiction | 368 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
History is a means of access to ourselves.
historyself-discovery
The past is another country, and in many ways a better one.
pastnostalgia
The future is always a whited sepulchre.
futureuncertainty
I have never been able to understand the concept of a 'meaning to life'.
lifeexistentialism
We are all haunted houses.
hauntingmemories
The past commingles with the present.
pastpresent
Time is not a river. It is a vast, uncharted ocean.
timeuncertainty
Every life is crowded with all the things it might have been.
lifepossibilities
We are all made up of the stories we listen to.
storiesidentity
The past is like a distant country, a place where we once lived.
pastnostalgia
