“There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.”
Source: Rabbit, Run
“Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath.”
Source: Rabbit, Run
“You do things and do things and nobody really has a clue.”
Source: Rabbit, Run
“If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.”
Source: Rabbit, Run
Rabbit, Run (1960)
Context: He feels the truth: the thing that has left his life has left irrevocably; no search would recover it. No flight would reach it. It was here, beneath the town, in these smells and these voices, forever behind him. The fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through with us, and we become, first inside, and then outside, junk. Flower stalks.
