# Quote — Tim Winton, The Shepherd's Hut

> Honestly, sometimes you'd rather be a dog. A mutt doesn't torture itself with thinking.

- Author: [Tim Winton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton.md)
- Book: [The Shepherd's Hut](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/the-shepherds-hut.md)
- Page: 37
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tim_Winton#The_Shepherd's_Hut_(2018)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/the-shepherds-hut/honestly-sometimes-youd

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> And you know someone's special when you never get enough of them.

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> 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)