Top 15 Annie Proulx Quotes

The ocean twitched like a vast cloth spread over snakes.

Nutbeem influenced a little by the lunar cycle. Had a touch of werewolf. At full moon he burst, talked himself dry, took exercise in the form of dancing and fighting at the Starlight Lounge, then slowly fell back to contemplation.

We run a car wreck photo every week, whether we have a car wreck or not. That's our golden rule.

The editorial page played streams of invective across the provincial political scene like a fire hose. Harangues, pitted with epithets. Gammy bird was a hard bite. Looked life right in its shifty, bloodshot eye. A tough little paper. Gave Quoyle an uneasy feeling, the feeling of standing on a playground watching others play games whose rules he didn't know.

which bloody misbegotten Card takes the liberty of recasting in his own insane tongue. As the bloody bog-rat's just done.

For the devil had long ago taken a shine to Tert Card, filled him like a cream horn with itch and irritation. His middle initial was X. Face like cottage cheese clawed with a fork.

Petal, like a persistent song phrase, like a few stubborn lines of verse memorized in childhood. The needle was stuck.

It was not until the next evening that he discovered he had a page from Leviticus stuck to his back.

'Dad, are we scared?' said Sunshine. 'No, honey. It's an adventure.

He [Quoyle] did not want a boat, shied from the thought of water. Ashamed he could not swim, couldn't learn.

the old place of the Quoyles, half ruined, isolated, the walls and doors of it pumiced by stony lives of dead generations. The aunt felt a hot pang. Nothing would drive them out a second time.

And three lucky stones strung on a wire to keep the house safe.

Dad, there's smoke coming out of the can and coming out of your mouth, too. How do you do that, daddy?

Quoyle, you got any maritime connections?' 'My grandfather was a sealer.' 'Jesus. You always come out at me out of left field.

Why do we weep in grief,' the aunt wondered. 'Dogs, deer, birds sufferent with dry eyes and in silence. The dumb suffering of animals. Probably a survival technique.