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  1. David Guterson _ Snow Falling on Cedars

    Tourists reminded him of other places and elicited in him a prodding doubt that living here was what he wanted.
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  2. David Guterson _ East of the Mountains

    ...and Miss Dietrich smiled and nodded at this and said that a girl in search of a husband should squeeze apple seeds between her fingers: if any struck the ceiling, she was sure to be happy in her quest, for apples were the fruit of love.
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  3. David Guterson _ Snow Falling on Cedars

    People appeared enormously foolish to him. He understood that they were only animated cavities full of jelly and strings and liquids."
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  4. David Guterson _ Snow Falling on Cedars

    The prospect of death in autumn, she said, was irrelevant next to its happy recognition of its participation in the life of the tree itself.
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  5. David Guterson _ East of the Mountains

    He had visited his family the evening before, eaten dinner with Renee and Chris, his grandson, in the pretence that everything was ordinary, but in fact to service his end-game ruse. He was going over the mountains, he'd said, to hunt for quail in willow canyons, he had no particular canyons in mind, he intended to return on Thursday evening, though possibly, if the hunting was good, he would return on Friday or Saturday. The lie was open-ended so that his family wouldn't start worrying until he'd been dead for as long as a week - so none would miss or seek him where he rotted silently in the sage. Ben imagined how it might be otherwise, his cancer a pestilent force in their lives, or a pall descending over them like ice, just as they'd begun to emerge from the pall of Rachel's death. The last thing they needed was for Ben to tell hem of his terminal colon cancer.
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  6. David Guterson _ Snow Falling on Cedars

    It ate at whatever was warm nearby, and then the coldness settled in permanently. You learned to live with it
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  7. David Guterson _ Snow Falling on Cedars

    No one {Islanders} trod easily upon the emotions of another where the sea licked everywhere against an endless shoreline. And this was excellent and poor at the same time-excellent because it meant most people took care, poor because it meant an inbreeding of the spirit, too much held in, regret and silent brooding, a world whose inhabitants walked in trepidation, in fear of opening up...They could not speak freely because they were cornered: everywhere they turned there was water and more water, a limitless expanse of it in which to drown. They held their breath and walked with care, and this made them who they were inside, constricted and small, good neighbors.
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  8. David Guterson _ Snow Falling on Cedars

    They were taken from Anacortes on a train to a transit camp-the horse stables at the Puyallup fairgrounds. They lived in the horse stalls and slept on canvas army cots; at nine p.m. they were confined to their stalls; at ten p.m. they were made to turn out their lights, one bare bulb for each family. The cold in the stalls worked into their bones, and when it rained that night they moved their cots because of the leaks in the roof. The next morning, at six A.M., they slogged through mud to the transit camp mess hall and ate canned figs and white bread from pie tins and drank coffee out of tin cups.
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  9. David Guterson _ Snow Falling on Cedars

    The trick was to live here without hating yourself because all around you was hatred.
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  10. David Guterson _ The Other

    The place felt sinister, though. Your imagination can get the better of you where a road ends against a forest.
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  11. David Guterson _ The Other

    When I think about John William now, I think about someone who followed through, and then I'm glad not to have followed through, to still be breathing, to still be here with people, to still be walking in the mountains, and to still be uncertain--even with all this cash on hand--in a way I seem to have no choice about. I'm a hypocrite, of course, and I live with that, but I live.
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  12. David Guterson _ The Other

    An argument ensued about abundance, leisure, work, nature, and what a second girl kept calling 'the American way.' When I asked her what she meant by 'the American way,' she said, 'Basically the destruction of everything--the world, your happiness, your soul, everything. The complete package. Evil and war. That's who we are, Mr. Countryman.'
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