“She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality ...”

“Amelia envisaged that between York and the royal-infested Scottish Highlands there was a grimy wasteland of derelict cranes and abandoned mills and betrayed, yet still staunch, people. Oh and moorl...”

“She had one of those husky voices that sounded as if she were permanently coming down with a cold. Men seemed to find that sexy in a woman, which Jackson thought was odd because it made women sound...”

“She could have happily lived inside any nineteenth century novel.”

“This Henry lived in Edinburgh, making him inaccessible and giving her something to do on the weekends 'Oh, just flying up to Scotland, Henry's taking me fishing,' which is the kind of thing she im...”

“If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.”

“But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem:they might point to the catkins hangingfrom the empty hazel trees, or direct us to the raindescending on black earth in early spring. ...”

“Life is but a dream for the dead.”

“Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.”

“There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.”

“There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.”