Favorite Quotes of Part I. of "The Sweet Hereafter" by Russell Banks

Short term profits make long term losses. Which is true about a lot of things.

Fixing motives is like fixing blame---the further away from the act you get, the harder it is to single out one thing as having caused it.

This is not bitterness; it's what happens when you have eaten your bitterness.

I believed that because terrible things had happened to me then and there, it was impossible for them to happen here and now.

I couldn't say anything true about how I felt. And neither could she.