From the books
Quotes
The lines readers underline most. Share them freely with attribution; quotations over 300 words need the publisher’s permission.
“Drought is not the rain stopping. Drought is nobody waiting for rain any more.”
“A village remembers as deep as its well; once the bottom shows, everyone looks the other way.”
“For forty years I looked for water. It turns out I was looking for the ones who kept quiet.”
“Don’t think you know a thing because you measured it. The scale has never tasted bread.”
“A craft doesn’t die; there are simply fewer hands waiting for it.”
“A man who does not know the wind’s name is a guest at sea.”
“Looking at the sky together is not being together; it is only being silent in the same direction.”
“In a small town everyone knows everyone; nobody knows anybody.”
“The state measures water, people measure loss. The two don’t add up in the same ledger.”
“A home is a wall that recognises you when you come back.”
“Every craft has its own silence; the master doesn’t speak, the hands do.”
“Learning to fly begins with forgiving the fall.”