Top 40 Samantha Hunt Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “We watched the water between us rushing back out to sea and I swear I saw the ocean fill up with words, like Jude was bleeding all the things he couldn’t tell anyone because it might kill him.”

— Samantha Hunt

2. “So my mother was one of the few people on the island who could hear foghorns at night and seagulls in the morning, and being responsible for so much listening made her a very quiet person.”

— Samantha Hunt

3. “I’ll just tell you what I remember because memory is as close as I’ve gotten to building my own time machine.”

— Samantha Hunt

4. “Summer’s ending and the closest thing I’ve had to an adventure was a Google search of Baja California.”

— Samantha Hunt

5. “Wait,” I say. “I think you’re mistaken. Saying there is no dream is the same as saying everything is a dream. Isn’t it? Everyone’s a dreamer? Extraordinary things happen all the time even when we’re awake. What I meant to suggest to you, if indeed that was me in your dream doing the suggesting, is that there is only one world. This one. The dream is real. The ordinary is the wonderful. The wonderful is the ordinary.”

— Samantha Hunt

6. “These woods are where silence has come to lick its wounds.”

— Samantha Hunt

7. “The color blue fills the entire mirror and, watching it, I think that is how a small northern town in America works. It enlists one beautiful thing like the ocean or the mountains or the snow to keep people stuck and stagnant and staring out to sea forever.”

— Samantha Hunt

8. “If one word can mean so many things at the same time then I don’t see why I can’t.”

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9. “Catching my breath. I watch them go. I watch them disregard gravity, the ground, and the distance between us. And though an old feeling, one of the wings, haunts my shoulder blades, I stay pinned to the window. I’ve learned that I cannot go with them.”

— Samantha Hunt

10. “I get enraged at the tyranny of text.” “What’s that?” “You know. Left to right. Punctuation. Page 1, page 2, page 3.”

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11. “Those cuts on my ribs are because I am trying to open gills before the flood comes.”

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12. “I’m the story of Sheresa. I write a little bit of the fiction of me every day.”

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13. “Millions of stars overhead make the violence of the Big Bang clear. So much force that matter is still sprinting away from the center. I.”

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14. “The more alone I get, the louder the world becomes.”

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15. “There are two rooms used as libraries, for which my mother and grandfather keep two separate and opposing systems of organization in their heads – hers by subject, his by the way he feels about the author: Animosity, Betrayed, Curious, Delighted, etc.”

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16. “Arthur takes a seat beside her. The colored lights bounce off his eyeglasses and Louisa loses all interest in time-travel technology. The future and the past disappear. All she feels is the tension between two bodies. How his head had been in her lap. How her hand had been wrapped inside his. The tension leaks down her throat. The belly. The muscle. And something forged. A weld. A softness. A vagueness that is rather quickly being sharpened into a point aimed directly at Louisa’s heart.”

— Samantha Hunt

17. “Women will one day rule the world, and when they do, their brains will be so finely tuned from all the years of quiet that I anticipate they will be far superior rulers to men.”

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18. “Why do the living assume the dead know better than we do? Like they gained some knowledge by dying, but why wouldn’t they just be the same confused people they were before they died?”

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19. “No. I’m not from outer space or the future. And this is not magic, just science, pure engineering. Magic, religion, the occult – all of it – they are all excuses to not believe that wonders are possible here on Earth. I don’t want to be magic. I want people to understand that things they never even dreamed of are possible. I want to be believed, Louisa.”

— Samantha Hunt

20. “Then there is the ocean, mean and beautiful.”

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21. “I’ve been forgotten here. Left alone talking to lightning storms, studying the mysterious patterns the dust of dead people makes as it floats through the last light of day.”

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22. “Ruth does love Jesus, same way she loves Lincoln, Robin Hood, Martin Luther King, and Nat. Handsome men who fight for justice.”

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23. “When a country goes to war, men can no longer operate free and open laboratories. The Government would like to know what you are doing. Businesses became corporations, the individual thinker became unpatriotic.”

— Samantha Hunt

24. “Microbes. Bacteria. Worms underground that mingle our parts with everything. It’s generous.” He locks his fingers in hers. “And infinite.” Mr. Bell squares his face to hers. “If you can get over the dreaded finite.”

— Samantha Hunt

25. “Some people enjoy humiliation. Maybe I used to be one of those people, but I don’t feel humiliation anymore. The body sloughs off cells every day, aging. After all that, what is left to feel humiliated? Very little indeed.”

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26. “Because every story is a ghost story, even mine.”

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27. “We’ve been fogged in for five days. The fog makes me both love and hate the weather. I hate it because it brings me down, but I love it because if the foul state continues I won’t have to do anything important with my life, and in many ways I am quite happy in that knowledge.”

— Samantha Hunt

28. “Love destroys. Thought creates.”

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29. “I would think a person who doesn’t know what’s she’s running from can’t really be on the run, but that’s not true. Here.”

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30. “Two people who live their lives alone in rooms doing strange, gentle things can sometimes be together in the middle of a dangerous storm in a house made of glass.”

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31. “Religions need women. Who else would do all the work?”

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32. “There isn’t any point to it. I’m not getting anywhere. No start, middle, or end. The children scream and I scream, and the noise we make goes out and down and round and round and round.”

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33. “Oh, I’m real. I’m the story of Sheresa. I write a little bit of the fiction of me every day. You see what I’m talking about? Then once you have the boundaries of history and fiction secure, where does everything else fall? Somewhere in between the two. History holds up one side of our lives and fiction the other. Mother, father. Birth, death, and in between, that’s where you find religion. That’s where you find art, science, engineering. It’s where things get made from belief and memory.”

— Samantha Hunt

34. “History holds up one side of our lives and fiction the other.”

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35. “It seems the loneliest place in the world for something so lovely.”

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36. “My love for him was – Tyranny.”

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37. “People can make beautiful mistakes, dear, and each one is an arrow, a brilliant arrow, pointing out the right way to there.”

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38. “Belief just takes steady convincing.”

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39. “My mother is regularly torn between being herself and being my mother.”

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40. “She’s not very old but the cigarettes help her to feel like she is.”

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41. “Dr. Adrienne Keene writes, “The system in what is currently known as the US isn’t ‘broken.’ It was designed by male white supremacist slaveowners on stolen Indigenous land to protect their interests. It’s working as it was designed.”

— Samantha Hunt

42. “We grow up into ghosts. No.”

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43. “These are the parts of him I find impossible to cut myself loose from. They are beautiful qualities. But beauty is heavy, and though I’m young I am getting tired from carrying around the bits and shreds of my father’s beauty.”

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44. “Motherhood,” she says, “despite being immensely common, remains the greatest mystery, and all the language people use to describe it, kitschy words like ‘comfort’ and ‘loving arms’ and ‘nursing,’ is to convince women to stay put.”

— Samantha Hunt

45. “A miracle,” I yelled, but I do not believe in miracles. Miracles simply mean that the world of science is much greater, much odder, encompassing many more dimensions than previously imagined.”

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46. “I feel something foreign bloom between my husband and me, an intruder, a mold. I see my husband with eyes that don’t know him, as if he quite suddenly became a man from Brazil, or grew a beard, or started speaking in a southern accent. As if after eleven years of marriage he somehow had all of his secrets returned to him, made secret again.”

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47. “Just like the dry land to name the cruel things in the water after women.”

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48. “Don’t forget that the ocean is full of everything except mercy.”

— Samantha Hunt