“My feet lingered at the edge of the riverbank. The river was loud and angry here, the rumble echoing off the mountains and roaring at the shore. In the distance stood a lone pine tree in the middle of it all, refusing to grow anywhere else but the icy waters. ‘I’ve done a lot of sinning lately,’ I said.” SinDangerNature QuotesMountainsGrowth QuotesSinningRiver QuotesSNakusp Book:Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit Source: Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit
“The mountains of Nakusp slid into Lake Arrow, dipping gingerly into the water. A reflection of green and blue glittered on the surface and I loved how the mountains stared at their own beauty.” Nature QuotesMountainsLiterary FictionBeauty QuotesMagical RealismCanadian WriterCanadian LiteratureNakusp Book:Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit Source: Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit
“Today, each time I looked at the house, I could see danger seeping out the windows like smoke. As night fell, I concentrated on the mounds of purple, white, and pink flowers that clustered against the siding: sweet peas that came back this time of year no matter how neglected. The petals were confused; they grew every which way out of their long stalks and emerged as butterfly wings rather than flowers. Now in the looming blackness, I watered the hydrangeas with their tiny white buds-blooms that patiently waited for a petal to fall so another could take its place. It would take a hundred years to count all the buds on a hydrangea bush. They just never gave up.” Nature QuotesLiterary FictionBeauty QuotesMagical RealismPerseverance QuotesFlower QuotesHydrangea Book:Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit Source: Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit