Quotes from book

Light in August

“Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.”

“Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.”

“And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.”

“She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be in words.”

“My, my. A body does get around.”

“And he was not old enough to talk and say nothing at the same time.”

“Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.”

“Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.”

“… how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.”

“Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.”

“I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.”

“She was the captain of her soul”

“Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what the other man or woman is doing.”

“...ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.”

“Poor man. Poor mankind.”