11 Quotes by Angela Slatter

Females are seldom remembered once they've gone beneath the earth; indeed, many go unremarked while they're still upon it.

I promise no miracles for I know all too well that Dame Fate has a penchant for making a liar of the best-intentioned individual.

The forest, Ina, is wide and dark; it's a cathedral in need of parishioners.

People, said Sybille, were not meant to be alone. Men and women, women and women, men and men, all should find each other. Solitude was for those broken beyond repair.

I remember all too well that one cannot put an old head on young shoulders.

I've loved her so long, and she's loved me... but she's self-seeking, Patience, I know this. She takes what she desires and gives only what she doesn't want. So, so selfish. I would I could walk away from her....That she lives on the sight of her own reflection in the eyes of others. That her love seems like the sun but is really a shadow that creeps in and leaves no room for anything else.

If you help keep a person in the world, the good and ill they do is always partially yours.

And though all seems forgiven, it is not forgotten. It's there like a lump beneath the carpet, a scar below the skin, a body hidden under the earth.

Memories change and shift, ferment in our minds; they are never the same when we take them out as they were when first we put them in.