4 Quotes by Lara Elena Donnelly

Daoud sighed. "You really think that he is still alive?""I know that I need to see for myself," said Aristide, staring at the white blots of cold cream on the carpet between his shoes. "Or I will live the rest of my life like a man with a toothache he cannot leave alone, and I will poke at it until it grows into an abscess, bursts, and kills me.

You've no idea what you've cost me. Not the faintest trace of an understanding.

Among the brooks and gorse and muddy stone, he let the façade fall. His own weakness broke his heart, and frightened him.

You know...I don't mind disappointing people. Perhaps that's a flaw in my character, but I think it has rather more to do with other people's failure to manage their own expectations. And everyone seems to have such varied expectations of me, how could I hope to fulfil them all?