Savage Her Reply
Deirdre Sullivan
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Perhaps I am a dark, unpleasant creature. But I am my own creature. I am mine, my feet on the earth and the water in my soul and fire in my heart. And when all is taken from me I will still have my anger and my pain and they will feed me.”
“How could I give what I had never known?”
“The thought of being in the world was too much to bear.”
“A child's want in a woman's heart is dangerous”
“You cannot trust a story. Even mine. Remember that.”
“They will come and take the things you need to keep you safe and tethered to the world. Oh, it will stop your breath and stop your mouth, but not your heart. Your heart will never stop. It will keep hurting and it will keep breathing.”
“The world is an old tongue softly whispered, but the sound of it is getting hoarser. I can feel my own thoughts getting away from me, not as they did before, when I was younger, in a tumult, but atrophying, fading into static, stony nothing. I am becoming glimpses of myself.”
“Stories vary, throat to throat, and heart to foolish heart, but mine belongs to me as much as them. So here I am, I will begin again. I will remember.”
“People can always find ways to twist customs and traditions to suit their own ends. Those who love power will gather power. And it will never be as warm and trusting as the skin of a sleeping child, but that sort of thing is hard to value when your eyes are fixed upon a crown.”
“It's hard to know how to protect yourself from those you love.”
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Book Keywords:
sister, anger, regret, pain, stories, wife, irish-mythology, resentment, forgiveness, foster-child, stepmother
