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Quotes from Barkskins — Annie Proulx

born 1935 United States

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5 quotes

The future flickered before him as a likely series of disappointments.

Barkskins (2016)

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

Barkskins (2016)

That world he wanted them to know had vanished as smoke deserts the dying embers that made it.

Barkskins (2016)

Deiter felt himself too old, lost in the forest of his own experience.

Barkskins (2016)

As he cut, the wildness of the world receded, the vast invisible web of filaments that connected human life to animals, trees to flesh and bones to grass shivered as each tree fell and one by one the web strands snapped.

Barkskins (2016)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Annie Proulx (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.