Quotes from Dark Matter

“Moving closer to the edge, I peered down. The water was glassy green, extraordinarily clear. I experienced the feeling I sometimes get when I'm on a bridge or a railway platform. Rationally, you know that you've no intention of stepping off the bridge or the platform - or this ice floe - but you're aware that you could, and that the only thing stopping you is your will.”
― Michelle Paver, quote from Dark Matter

“How odd, that light should prevent one from seeing.”
― Michelle Paver, quote from Dark Matter

“If you're warm enough when you set out, you're wearing too many clothes.”
― Michelle Paver, quote from Dark Matter

“I wondered what it must be like to be so handsome. Surely it would affect the behavior of everyone around you, always?”
― Michelle Paver, quote from Dark Matter

“And yet I think I now understand the impulse which drives men to shoot bears. It isn't for the pelt or the meat or the sport - or not only those things. I think they need to do it. They need to kill that great Arctic totem to give them some sense of control over the wilderness - even if that is only an illusion.”
― Michelle Paver, quote from Dark Matter

“I’m twenty-eight years old and I hate my life. I never have the time or the energy to work out how to change it. On Sundays I trail round a museum to keep warm, or lose myself in a library book, or fiddle with the wireless. But Monday’s already looming. And always I’ve got this panicky feeling inside, because I know I’m getting nowhere, just keeping myself alive. Tacked”
― Michelle Paver, quote from Dark Matter

“But young as I was, I suspected that a God who allows such cruelty wouldn’t have cared about bringing it to an end. I”
― Michelle Paver, quote from Dark Matter

“Never been so intensely watched by a creature who would kill me if it got the chance. I stared at it, and I felt death staring back. A”
― Michelle Paver, quote from Dark Matter

“But young as I was, I suspected that a God who allows such cruelty wouldn’t have cared about bringing it to an end.
― Michelle Paver, Dark Matter”
― Michelle Paver, quote from Dark Matter

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