The Water Museum

“Ina the Viking was out in her potato patch waving at him like some idiot. Some people thought life was just the spiffiest thing that ever happened.”

LifeHappinessPleasureContentment

Book:The Water Museum

Source: The Water Museum

♥0Copy quoteCreate image

ftpin@

“He hadn't enjoyed school all that much, but they could have warned him that language would prove overtaxing.”

SchoolLanguageUnderstandingChallengesDifficultiesSpeaking

Book:The Water Museum

Source: The Water Museum

♥0Copy quoteCreate image

ftpin@

“Museums suck," said Billy. The bus rattled along between tan fields. "Right?" said Charlie. "History," said Higgins. "Shit like that.”

HistoryMuseumsTerribleness

Book:The Water Museum

Source: The Water Museum

♥0Copy quoteCreate image

ftpin@

“Okay," he said, informing the universe he was ready for decisive action.”

DecisionsDecisiveness

Book:The Water Museum

Source: The Water Museum

♥0Copy quoteCreate image

ftpin@

“To be macho, you must already know everything, know it so well that you're already bored by the knowledge.”

KnowledgeBoredomKnowledgeableMachoKnow It AllMachismo

Book:The Water Museum

Source: The Water Museum

♥0Copy quoteCreate image

ftpin@

“Doesn't every town in America have an old-timer called The Professor? That duffer who knows everything and everybody, as long as they are dead.”

StereotypesCharactersSmall TownsOld Timers

Book:The Water Museum

Source: The Water Museum

♥0Copy quoteCreate image

ftpin@

“Every winter he'd be out here plowing with the big red blade mounted on the Ford, and when he was done opening up his drive, he'd by God get cracking on the neighbors' spreads down the road. Arnie and Ina, good Vikings from Minnesota. The Rays over to the east--they had a kid. Couldn't be trapped out here in snow. That's how America worked. Used to work. That was what made things function. It was all obvious come winter. Some folks wouldn't pitch in with a snow shovel if they saw a naked one-hundred-year-old lady out there struggling with a drift.”

HelpingWinterSnowNeighborsPlowingBeing NeighborlySnowplowing

Book:The Water Museum

Source: The Water Museum

♥0Copy quoteCreate image

ftpin@