Quotes from The Secret River

“How short a time a person had to be alive, he thought. How long to be dead.”
― Kate Grenville, quote from The Secret River

“it crossed Farren's mind that although death seemed big, life was even bigger”
― Kate Grenville, quote from The Secret River

“This place had been here long before him. It would go on sighing and breathing and being itself after he had gone, the land lapping on and on, watching, waiting, getting on with its own life.”
― Kate Grenville, quote from The Secret River

“Ain't nothing in this world just for the taking...A man got to pay a fair price for taking...Matter of give a little, take a little.”
― Kate Grenville, quote from The Secret River

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