Stacey Halls > Quotes

“Loyalty is earned, not demanded.”
― Stacey Halls, The Familiars

“If the Devil is poverty, and hunger, and grief, then yes, I think they know the Devil.”
― Stacey Halls, The Familiars

“- 'I bet you are not afraid of anything', I said.
'Of course I am,' she said, and she pulled at a loose thread in her apron. 'I am afraid of lies.'-”
― Stacey Halls, The Familiars

“There is no difference in it, really. It’s the same life for a daughter as it is for a wife – just a different man telling you what to do.”
― Stacey Halls, The Familiars

“Alice Gray saved my life, not just once but many times. When I itched, she brought me plants to rub on my skin. When I was sick, she made me tinctures. She kept me company when I was at my lowest. She planted a garden for my health.'
'Sounds like a witch to me, Richard said bitterly. 'How else would she know those things?'
'She is a midwife, like her mother before her. Are you like the king now, thinking all wise women and poor women and midwives are carrying out the Devil's work? Why, he must be the largest employer in Lancashire.”
― Stacey Halls, The Familiars

“These feminine vessels we inhabited: why did nobody expect them to contain unfeminine feelings? Why could we, too, not be furious and scornful and entirely altered by grief? Why must we accept the cards we had been dealt? I heard the clock chime two in the hall, and attempted to drag myself from the past into the present. But perhaps we never could entirely. Perhaps we were always made up of both, and they fitted perfectly together, like a jagged little heart.”
― Stacey Halls, The Foundling

“Respect is earned, not demanded.”
― Stacey Halls, The Familiars

“Saying no can be ten times harder than saying yes, but it makes you feel a hundred times better.”
― Stacey Halls, Mrs. England

“I wished for sadness: that was easy, and came with things past rather than uncertain things ahead.”
― Stacey Halls, The Familiars

“laced their stays and polished their shoes to come here. This chapel was a hall of mirrors: they were not here to see one another but rather themselves, through the gaze of others.”
― Stacey Halls, The Foundling

“And last of all there was the tag, with the number 627, and two pieces of scrimshaw, carved with initials, which put together made a heart.”
― Stacey Halls, The Foundling

“The landscape of my life had been rubbed away and painted over anew, and I was only beginning to grow used to it.”
― Stacey Halls, The Foundling

“Laws [are] like cobwebs, where the small flies are
caught but the great break through.”
― Stacey Halls, The Familiars

“woods.”
― Stacey Halls, The Familiars

“There is no difference in it, really. It’s the same life for a daughter as it is for a wife—just a different man telling you what to do.”
― Stacey Halls, The Familiars

“I could not look at him, because his grief was raw and exposing. He did not know how to sit with it yet, or what to do with it. I knew that feeling well.”
― Stacey Halls, The Foundling

“I wondered if there was a word for homesickness not for a place but for people;”
― Stacey Halls, Mrs. England

“Si el diablo es pobreza, hambre y dolor, entonces sí, creo que lo conocen.”
― Stacey Halls, The Familiars

“Home is only a memory. And she is grateful for it, because to have had it and lost it is better than never having it at all.”
― Stacey Halls, The Household

“Denunciar al prójimo: el rasgo más distintivo de la humanidad, el que llenó la mazmorra en primer lugar. Los rumores se propagaban más rápido que la enfermedad y podían ser tan destructivos como ella.”
― Stacey Halls, The Familiars

“Women carried life and death in their stomachs when they conceived; it was a fact of life.”
― Stacey Halls, The Familiars

“played”
― Stacey Halls, The Familiars

“El rey no es partidario de las mujeres que intentan buscarse la vida como pueden: ayudando al prójimo, ahuyentando las enfermedades e intentando mantener a sus hijos con vida. Y mientras no lo sea, yo tampoco lo seré de él.”
― Stacey Halls, The Familiars

“Honi soit qui mal y pense.”
― Stacey Halls, The Familiars

“The city is cruel but not heartless; it always offers a step to sit on, a secret corner to tuck oneself inside. There are thousands of people working thousands of jobs, fine parks and wide streets in which rich and poor may walk side by side. In London, a cat may look on a king.”
― Stacey Halls, The Household

“but when my belly grew and the pushing began, it was her hand I wanted to hold. I’d been envious of the girls with mothers last night, who’d worn their love on their faces.”
― Stacey Halls, The Foundling

“Fire is for stewpots and heretics”
― Stacey Halls, The Familiars

“I should have remembered that death as well as life was attracted to youth and beauty. ‘The doctor said it was his brain,’ I told Eliza. ‘He”
― Stacey Halls, The Foundling

“humble bow. I heard the door close softly behind him, and the pain of my past lapped gently at my feet, inviting me to bathe in its tempting waters, and I sank back into it, and let it carry me down.”
― Stacey Halls, The Foundling

“It’s awful quiet here, ain’t it? All I can hear is my thoughts.”
― Stacey Halls, The Household