The Lie Tree
Frances Hardinge
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Faith had always told herself that she was not like other ladies. But neither, it seemed, were other ladies.”
“There was a hunger in her, and girls were not supposed to be hungry. They were supposed to nibble sparingly when at table, and their minds were supposed to be satisfied with a slim diet too.”
“This is a battlefield, Faith! Women find themselves on battlefields, just as men do. We are given no weapons, and cannot be seen to fight. But fight we must, or perish.”
“Who had they been, all these mothers and sisters and wives? What were they now? Moons, blank and faceless, gleaming with borrowed light, each spinning loyally around a bigger sphere. ‘Invisible,’ said Faith under her breath. Women and girls were so often unseen, forgotten, afterthoughts. Faith herself had used it to good effect, hiding in plain sight and living a double life. But she had been blinded by exactly the same invisibility-of-the-mind, and was only just realizing it.”
“It has made me what I am. When every door is closed, one learns to climb through windows. Human nature, I suppose.”
“Quiet people often have a weather sense that loud people lack. They feel the wind-changes of conversations, and shiver in the chill of unspoken resentments.”
“Large people tend to have large heads. Men are no cleverer than we are, Miss Sunderly. Just taller.”
“I am not good. Something in Faith’s head broke free, beating black wings into the sky. Nobody good could feel what I feel. I am wicked and deceitful and full of rage. I cannot be saved. She did not feel hot or helpless any more. She felt the way snakes looked when they moved.”
“Magic” was not an answer; it was an excuse to avoid looking for one.”
“People were animals, and animals were nothing but teeth. You bit first, and you bit often. That was the only way to survive.”
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Book Keywords:
inequality, feminism, women, quiet-people
