2 Quotes by Tom Dawe

When we were children, everything scared us. The harmless dragonfly, for example, was called 'the devil's darning needle.' The creature hovered all around us int he summertime, ready to sew up the ears and lips of disobedient children. To us, even a common snipe, owl, or bittern calling from the marsh, might be a voice from the other side.

We children were terrified by the story. We still listened to the old believers, they who were never dismissive, they who were never afriad to entertain the shadow