The Night Is For Hunting Quotes
"The sun sat up there all day without moving. It saw everything and it forgave nothing."
"Sometimes it seemed like you were alone in the world, you and the sun."
"Everything that wasn’t covered or hidden or fed with water, it burned."
"From the day the bombers roared overhead, there was time for one thing only, and that was survival."
"You missed hearing a twig break, you were dead."
"No one can get in our world. It has a wall twenty feet high and adults have only ten foot ladders."
"Didn’t they realise that for us kids it wasn’t that way at all? Had they forgotten so much already about what it was like to be a kid?"
"Sometimes you can be so exhausted, so much at the end of your tether, that nothing keeps you awake."
"If you love something let it go. If it doesn’t come back, it wasn’t yours in the first place."
"It sounded like they were everywhere at once."
"The way to their hearts was through their stomachs."
"In times of worst stress and worst danger our minds always turned to the one place."
"The war’s not their fault. They didn’t start it. They can’t help what happened."
"You can't keep out the truth, and that's the truth."
"No-one ever notices that stuff. No-one even thanked me for getting them out of Stratton last night. I saved their lives."
"In depressing times all I had was a flimsy belief that the things we did would give other people a better life, somewhere down the track."
"I couldn’t help thinking Fi was talking more about herself. These kids were gutsy enough to do anything, but they were also really ignorant when it came to the bush."
"I thought, ‘If God created them he must have fantastically skilful fingers.’ I’m too clumsy to make something that beautiful and delicate."
"It wasn’t just the physical tiredness either; it was the terrible emotional weariness. Death, death, death, that seemed to be the story of my life these days."
"It made me angry, a bit, that they could be so unfeeling about their friend, although I understood why."
"We hadn’t always thought it was necessary, then or at other times since, but at dusk, with a largish group, it seemed sensible."
"The kids flopped against the rocks and made their usual grumbling noises about how tired and hungry and sore they were."
"There was something filmy about the water here, as though a cloud had slipped out of the sky into the pool."
"They could have been a patrol searching for us."
"It was like shedding your clothes before you step in the shower."
"I realised we were kind of conspiring in the process. No-one could steal Christmas without our permission."
"I don’t think I’m exactly claustrophobic but I definitely don’t like feeling trapped."
"In the pitch black of the boot I clung to the image of a fiery furnace."
"The noise in this narrow corridor was enormous."
"It was like being caught inside a computer game."
"I didn’t want to die without fixing things up with him."
"War's stripped all that from us. I'm trying to think of any situation before the war when that happened."
"I wish they could have seen us rolling those mutilated bodies onto the stretchers."
"Once again we had killed others so we could stay alive."
"It seems like suffering's the only time we can see what's essential."
"If peace ever comes back I'm making a vow: I'll design myself special glasses."
"Being curious, wanting answers: that’s the way we are."
"I don’t want to go back to New Zealand if there’s a chance of helping at the critical time."
"The only things that matter in life are so damn simple. Family, friends, being safe and well."