# Quote — Tim Winton, The Shepherd's Hut

> 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.

- 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: 35
- 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/i-shoulda-been

## More from this book

> 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)