14 Quotes by Graham Masterton

Parents always have their own ideas about how they wish their children to be brought up, both morally and spiritually. But they must understand that their children are not their property; that their children are entitled to pursue happiness in any way they wish.

Mistress of the grisly and the glutinous.

It’s bad enough weeping for the loss of a love you once had. Don’t be after weeping for the loss of a love you never had at all.

Because this woman sobbed in the way that all women sob, whether they do it outwardly or whether they keep it silently locked up inside themselves. They sob because they realise, one day, that they were born on a planet of men, and that short of death or spinsterhood they can never escape. Effie’s Aunt Rachel used to say, ‘Even the slaves could run away, but where can women go?

She climbed out of the car and walked across the farmyard with her raincoat collar turned up. Liam was standing by the open grave with his hands in the pockets of his long brown.