32 Quotes by Margo Lanagan

How sweet it was to be scolded by such a tiny.

She had a different kind of boldness, a strength that did not defy that of men so much as ignore it, or take its place without question beside it – Urdda wanted some of that boldness.

These words came, quite clear, like small, evil people, across the cobbles to Branza’s ankles, where they stood and smirked up at her.

How could a person be clumsy, just standing? And yet she felt she was, as clumsy as one of those blocks of boxwood being seasoned there, unshaped, indelicate.

Always your mind goes to the worst, Mam, and the worst very seldom happens.