Craig Lancaster · 298 pages
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“Any fighter knows that regret that doesn't inform your future is wasted emotion. If you lose and dwell on the missed opportunity rather than the chances to come, you're finished.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter
“I don’t feel sorry for myself. I’m not owed any of that. The opportunities were there, and I did not take them. I find it difficult to live with this sometimes.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter
“Ernest Hemingway talked about how writing is opening up a vein and bleeding onto the page. You prepared to do that?”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter
“Hugo and I sat together in the chapel and didn’t say a word to each other. We’d already said them all, in better times and in better places.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter
“nobody really gets what they deserve from this life, that it’s all a question of what you can take while you have the time.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter
“The one thing Hugo did better than almost anyone else, the one constant for much of his life, was being taken away in a most ignominious way.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter
“You can make yourself crazy, refiguring it all after the fact. You did what you thought was best at the time. You helped a friend. That’s what matters.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter
“this much, too: never again will we keep our hearts waiting.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter
“I cleared the air again. “Oh, I’m plenty stupid. But not on this. And I’m not cruel. Don’t let him fight again. Hell, you shouldn’t have let him fight tonight. I’m all for that. But it’s not going to kill you to let him go with the knowledge that nobody ever knocked him out cold. Besides, it isn’t me you have to convince anyway.” Squeaky ran the gym, ran the Tuesday night fights, but his daddy, Frank, was the boss. He knew this sure as I did.”
― Craig Lancaster, quote from The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter
Craig Lancaster
Born place: in Lakewood, Washington, The United States
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“They are deceived who imagine that he arises from his knees, with back lacerated and bleeding, cherishing only a spirit of meekness and forgiveness. A day may come—it will come, if his prayer is heard—a terrible day of vengeance when the master in his turn will cry in vain for mercy.”
― Solomon Northup, quote from Twelve Years a Slave
“I trust that people will improve, as a group, but we can help it along by striving to be better people on an individual basis.”
― quote from Worm
“Hope for the best, expect the worst.”
― Angela Carter, quote from Wise Children
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― Sherman Alexie, quote from Reservation Blues
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