Quotes from Larry Watson, Let Him Go

When night comes on in a room lit by kerosene, any flicker of the flame can give the sense that darkness is about to triumph.

With so much unknown in this life, how little it takes for a face, a grove of trees, an outcropping of stone to become familiar.

A gust of wind doesn't suddenly bang a door open. A clock doesn't chime. The phone doesn't ring. Yet in the next instant the stillness breaks as if it is crystal.