Quotes from Sarah Graves

I do not think money is the root of all evil, but I know it makes an effective fertilizer.

When I came here, it stunned me at first to realize how much what I had thought of as civilization was really just advertising and marketing, incessant urgings to buy, Buy, BUY. from Dead Cat Bounce

For some things, a decent downeast silence was the only good response, at least in the immediate aftermath.

But the media were about to go cold turkey on the whole latter half of the twentieth century, and the shock was going to make them irritable.

it's not the thought that counts. In this world, it's the action that counts.

Just breathing in and out suddenly seemed to require a series of massive, separately considered decisions, as if each small action of mine had abruptly become huge compared to all the ones the dead man was not taking.

winter in downeast Maine makes summer seem like something that only happens to other, more fortunate people, probably on some other planet.

life is risk. The only choice is, are you the taker or the taken?

But even though Victor wasn't the sun in my sky anymore, he was still the moon and several important stars.

You might not notice the moon very much. White and silent, it shines a cold light that is merely a ghost of the beloved day.

Tools, check. Sandwiches and coffee, check. Work clothes, hip boots, unbridled optimism entirely out of proportion to our experience with the task at hand…