# The Shepherd's Hut - Author: [Tim Winton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton.md) - Quotes: 17 - Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/the-shepherds-hut ## Quotes > And you know someone's special when you never get enough of them. p. 83 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/the-shepherds-hut/and-you-know.md) > Honestly, sometimes you'd rather be a dog. A mutt doesn't torture itself with thinking. p. 37 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/the-shepherds-hut/honestly-sometimes-youd.md) > I knew what people thought. Clacktons, we were rubbish. Town like Monkton, one pub, roadhouse, rail silo and twelve streets, half of them empty, small enough everyone heard something and they all had a fucking opinion. p. 21 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/the-shepherds-hut/i-knew-what.md) > Nanna was the first dead person I ever saw. Her hair was blue against the pillow. And when me hand bumped her cheek she was cold and heavy and a kind of spark went through me, like a terrible familiar feeling. And I understood it then. She was meat. That's what dead things are. p. 98 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/the-shepherds-hut/nanna-was-the.md) > I shoulda been making proper plans to go right then. But I wasn't. You ever seen a chased rabbit give in running? When he just pulls up and stands there? Like he's out of puff and out of ideas and can't put two moves together anymore? Well that was me. I shoulda been gone already. It was like I was paralysed. p. 35 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/the-shepherds-hut/i-shoulda-been.md) > Thing is, I'm not the surrendering type. Anyway I'm looking up and down that track. It was the highway or the wildywoods. That was the decision. Between something that's real and something you hope is real. I was banking everything on this call and maybe I wasn't fully right in the head by then but I went east. Roll the dice, that's me. p. 49 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/the-shepherds-hut/thing-is-im-not.md) > "Our stories. We store them where moth and rust destroy. We're precious about them, no? Not because we treasure them at all, but because it's safer to hold them close. Am I reading you right? Do we have that much in common?" p. 134 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/the-shepherds-hut/our-stories-we-store.md) > "Sometimes it's a mighty struggle to know what's real and what's just . . . a mirage. You understand?" > > "Yeah," I said. p. 132 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/the-shepherds-hut/sometimes-its-a-mighty.md) > Mum said school mighta been different for me if I only give a damn. Maybe it was wasted on me like the teachers said. I didn't have any philosophy in me then, so I didn't know what to listen for. Most of it was pointless crap. Don't reckon I met a single wise person all the years I stayed but like I say, I wasn't paying close attention. And the thing is I miss it a bit. That's something I never thought I'd hear myself say. I didn't know what I was, what I could do. Except the lame things I did do. p. 43 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/the-shepherds-hut/mum-said-school.md) > "I suspect that God is what you do, not what or who you believe in. When you do right, Jaxie, when you make good - well, then you are an instrument of God. Then you are joined to the divine, to the life force, to life itself. That's what I believe. That's what I hope for. And it's what I have missed. Think of it this way. When somebody does me a kindness, it enlarges me, adds to my life, you see? And not only mine - it adds to all life." p. 233 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/the-shepherds-hut/i-suspect-that.md) > Still you can't keep doing the coulda and the woulda and the shoulda. And if there's one thing I know it's this. Doesn't matter how smart you are, or even how careful or lucky, there's some mistakes you just keep making over and over. p. 238 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/the-shepherds-hut/still-you-cant.md) > It's one thing to think someone's stupid. And fair enough if you need them to be. But you can't go banking on it. That's a mug's game. p. 250 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/the-shepherds-hut/its-one-thing.md) > I wondered what I woulda done if I'd missed that euro. But that was like wondering what your life'd be like if your dad wasn't a douche. p. 68 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/the-shepherds-hut/i-wondered-what.md) > I didn't even know why I liked her. She was just there. I was used to her. p. 77 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/the-shepherds-hut/i-didnt-even.md) > I knew from hunting food the thing you need most of isn't water or ammo, it's patience. p. 248 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/the-shepherds-hut/i-knew-from.md) > Tomorrow'll be a new day. Which is really the same miserable fucking day all over again. p. 9 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/the-shepherds-hut/tomorrowll-be-a-new.md) > There isn't one thing in the world hot and hard as knowing there's someone waiting, coming, pressing, wanting you. p. 199 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/the-shepherds-hut/there-isnt-one.md)