Weyward Quotes
"Panic flutters in her, like a bird."
"The wine is chardonnay, usually her favorite. But now the smell turns her stomach, makes her think of rot."
"Volition is a nice word. It makes her think of flying."
"The memory turned in me like a knife."
"The judges were seated on a high bench, as if they were heavenly beings, rather than meat and bone like the rest of us."
"The dawn air floods in, clean and grassy, with a tang of dung."
"Outside, the rising sun turns the hills pink."
"The moon shone like a pearl in the dusky sky, lighting up the cragged hills."
"Really, it wasn’t death I feared. It was dying."
"If I must depart this life, I thought, let me live on in the soil."
"The prosecutor frowned, as if the physician had not given him the answer he wanted."
"I knew what question would follow."
"‘Imagine, having only one day left on Earth.'"
"As if a spell had been broken."
"I had a feeling of eyes on me. As if someone were watching, from the trees."
"Witch. The word slithers from the mouth like a serpent, drips from the tongue as thick and black as tar."
"I’m having a girl. She looks like a fighter, this one."
"She crumples the Polaroid in her hand, then rips it to tiny shreds. They float to the floor, like snow."
"She blinks the memory away, refocuses her gaze on the woman in the mirror."
"She looks – and feels – powerful."
"Come on, she tells herself. You can do this."
"She is different. And she is never going back to him."
"It’s been seven months since she left. Sometimes she feels as if she’s always lived in Weyward Cottage."
"But I promised to set things down as they happened and this I will do. The act of it brings me comfort."
"Who decides where things begin and end? I do not know if time moves in a straight line, or a circle."
"I thought I was like Altha, our fearless ancestor, that our deeds linked us across time."
"I am familiar with that look, now. It is the same way he looks at a gun dog or a rifle, a mere instrument to deliver his wants."
"That she will soon hold her child in her arms feels nothing short of miraculous. Kate wonders what colour her eyes will be, after they’ve changed from new-born blue. What she’ll smell like."
"Sight is a funny thing... Sometimes it shows us what is before our eyes. But sometimes it shows us what has already happened, or will yet come to pass."
"Her mother. Elizabeth Weyward. She who had given Violet her middle name. Her legacy."
"All we needed was to be returned to the wild."
"They have always been with her, and always will be."
"I am proud, too. Much as I shy away from it, the hard truth in my heart is that I am proud of what I have done."
"It is strange, to think she’s spent all her life cringing away from nature. From who she really is."
"She is not a victim, but a survivor."
"The old words, traced by her fingers countless times, hummed in her blood."
"Like a once bright fire burning to embers, her life was coming to an end."
"The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet."