174 Quotes by Frances Hardinge

So what do you want?" asked Myrtle."I want to help evolution."Evolution did not fill Faith with the same horror her father had felt. Why should she weep to hear that nothing was set in stone? Everything could change. Everything could get better. Everything was getting better, inch by inch, so slowly that she could not see it, but knowing it gave her strength.

So what do you wants?" asked Myrtle."I want to help evolution."Evolution did not fill Faith with the same horror her father had felt. Why should she weep to hear that nothing was set in stone? Everything could change. Everything could get better. Everything was getting better, inch by inch, so slowly that she could not see it, but knowing it gave her strength.

I swam across the torrent of my madness, and pulled myself upon the shore of a new and better sanity.

I died recently, and I am in no hurry to enjoy the experience again just yet.

Somehow the sting of guilt was always more acute when there was a risk that she might get caught.

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.

Just between you and me,’ Mosca whispered, ‘radicalism is all about walkin’ on the grass.

Мъртвите хора кървят тишина.

The past was all around her. She could smell it. It did not feel dead. It felt alive, and as curious about her as she was about it.