Snow Falling on Cedars Quotes

  • Ishmael Chambers: I know you'll think this is crazy, but all I want to do is hold you, and I think that if you'll let me do that just for a few seconds, I can walk away, and never speak to you again.

  • Arthur Chambers: That's the thing with girls. They grew up and break your heart.

  • Nels Gudmundsson: It takes a rare thing, a turning point, to free oneself from any obsession. Be it prejudice or hate, or, even love.

  • Nels Gudmundsson: Accident rules every corner of the universe... except perhaps the chambers of the human heart.

    [NB these are the last words in the novel]

  • Young Hatsue Imada: Don't be sorry. I'm not.

  • Judge Fielding: That's quite enough horseplay, Nels. Try and act your age.

    Nels Gudmundsson: I think if I did that, Your Honor, I'd be dead.

    [laughter from the chamber]

  • Young Hatsue Imada: [snuggling] Do you think this is wrong?

    Young Ishmael Chambers: Your friends would. Your dad would kill me.

    Young Hatsue Imada: My mom is the problem.

    Fujiko Imada: [remembering her mother's voice] Stay away from white boys. Marry one of your own kind, whose heart is strong and gentle.

Extended Reading
  • Jaren 2022-03-27 09:01:21

    Men are always very attractive when they are in love. What's more, Ethan Hawke, who was blond, blue-eyed and tender, was so beautiful.

  • Adela 2022-03-25 09:01:23

    Pure love literary film history and justice are foils