# Quote — Tim Winton, The Shepherd's Hut

> 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.

- 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: 49
- 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/thing-is-im-not

## 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)