Cruso's Quotes

#1. You will believe me when I say the life we lead grows less and less distinct from the life we led of Cruso's island. Sometimes I wake up not knowing where I am. The world is full of islands, said Cruso once. His words ring truer every day.

J.M. Coetzee

#2. Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.

John Lancaster Spalding

#3. When I reflect on my story I seem to exist only as the one who came, the one who witnessed, the one who longed to be gone: a being without substance, a ghost beside the true body of Cruso. Is that the fate of all storytellers?

J.M. Coetzee

#4. Scents bring memories, and many memories bring nostalgic pleasure. We would be wise to plan for this when we plant a garden.

Thalassa Cruso

#5. Today I am sure no one needs to be told that the more birds a yard can support, the fewer insects there will be to trouble the gardener the following year.

Thalassa Cruso

#6. Once we become interested in the progress of the plants in our care, their development becomes a part of the rhythm of our own lives and we are refreshed by it.

Thalassa Cruso

#7. I'm no good at cooking or music, but I've always known how to garden. Nobody ever taught me; I just absorbed it. Some families are churchgoers or sports fans. We gardened.

Thalassa Cruso

#8. I choose rather to tell of the island, of myself and Cruso and Friday and what we three did there: for I am a free woman who asserts her freedom by telling her story according to her own desire.

J.M. Coetzee

#9. Every year it seems to me I hear complaints about spring. It is either "late" or "unusually cold," "abnormally dry" or "fantastically wet," for no one is ever willing to admit that there is no such thing as a normal spring.

Thalassa Cruso

#10. She touched him and found that even something as innocent as the lacing of their fingers could raise all the hairs on the back of her neck and make her blood beat faster.

Jodi Picoult

#11. One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards.

Thalassa Cruso

#12. I don't go out that often. I'm not going to clubs or anything.

Kevin Dillon

#13. War has no winners and peace, no losers

Ashok Kallarakkal

#14. March is a month of considerable frustration - it is so near spring and yet across a great deal of the country the weather is still so violent and changeable that outdoor activity in our yards seems light years away.

Thalassa Cruso

#15. The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind.

Thalassa Cruso

#16. You never think your life will be that big. Just

Megan Abbott