Breath
Tim Winton
Top 10 Best Quotes
“It’s how I fill the time when nothing’s happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.”
“It's funny, but you never really think much about breathing. Until it's all you ever think about.”
“I liked books - the respite and privacy of them - books about plants and the formation of ice and the business of world wars. Whenever I sank into them I felt free.”
“We rise to a challenge and set a course. We take a decision. You put your mind to something. Just deciding to do it gets you halfway there. Daring to try. ”
“Being afreaid proves you're alive and awake.”
“I was in my thirties before I learnt that I too would prefer not to see what I could no longer have”
“I came home at dusk with my ears ringing from the quiet.”
“Wherever I went I felt like the last person awake in a room full of sleepers”
“That was the simple objective, being airborne, up longer, up higher, more casually & with more fuck off elegance than anyone else in the world. I never understood the rules or the science of it but I recognized the single-mindedness it took to match risk with nerve come what may. Some endeavours require a kind of egotism, a near autistic narrowness. Everything conspires against you – the habits of physics, the impulse to flee - & you’re weighed down by every dollop of commonsense dished up. Everyone will tell you your goal is impossible, pointless, stupid, wasteful so you hang tough. You back yourself & only yourself. This idiot resolve is all you have.”
“Surviving is the strongest memory I have; the sense of having walked on water.”
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Book Keywords:
time, loneliness, sadness, idleness, melancholy
