Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club
Megan Gail Coles
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Newfoundland where it is perpetually almost summer until it is almost winter again.”
“This kind of love cannot meet an easy end”
“Stay alive long enough to buy new jeans... That's what the economy wanted. Not for him to thrive. Find some kind of peace. Or gather up a fistful of happiness. It was not in the market's interest to keep him alive for the right reasons. And his human worth was sold back to him as such.”
“She has learned to abuse herself in a misguided attempt at thwarting expectation.”
“But knowing something and facing it is altogether different.”
“As if having more is reflective of being more.”
“didn’t want to be her parents. Or themselves. They did not want to be.”
“Your truth is not more fucking true than my truth.”
“Tom has never known what it is like to live in constant fear that you won't make it through the winter. Tom expects to make it through every winter. Knows that spring will return. Plans for the summer. This is the great difference between the two of them. Tom plans for the future because he never doubts that there will be one, while Damien feels he has robbed each day like an unworthy street thief.”
“This is why people are chasing their aces all over the poorest bays. Not because they've some genuine belief that they will catch the card. They can barely catch a break at all. A century of impoverishment and industry collapse, pillaging and recrimination, has taught them not to hope for much but a bit of fun when the cards are cut.”
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Book Keywords:
poverty, chase-the-ace, newfoundland
