161 Quotes by Annie Proulx

Quoyle bit at the squidburger as though at wrist ropes.

The thing American people fear about corporations is that they might achieve too much power. We have an antipathy to power even as we admire it.

In every life there are events that reshape one's sense of existence. Afterward, all is different and the past is dimmed.

It was not Quoyle's chin she hated, but his cringing hesitancy, as though he waited for her anger, expected her to make him suffer.

Partridge's fire never brought him to a boil.

We learn how to disguise our differentness as we grow up. [She] doesn't know how to do that yet.

The words poured down with the rain.

We don’t make the decisions, just does what we’re told where and when we’re told. We lives by rules made somewhere else by sons a bitches don’t know nothin’ about this place.

The thick candle that was Tert Card gone somewhere else with his sputtering light.