Anna Ellory > Quotes

“I think we are but a circumstance apart.”
― Anna Ellory, The Rabbit Girls

“Even the darkest words will find the light.”
― Anna Ellory, The Rabbit Girls

“A mother’s love is never perfect, but it is plentiful, dedicated and true. I may not be able to write love, but Lotte, love isn’t something you feel, it’s something you do.”
― Anna Ellory, The Puzzle Women

“Time fills in the blanks as we know them to be, rather than as they were.”
― Anna Ellory, The Rabbit Girls

“healing wasn’t about closure, it wasn’t about turning the page and walking away. Healing was working on feelings as they changed and evolved day-to-day.”
― Anna Ellory, The Puzzle Women

“I suppose what is lost can always be found.”
― Anna Ellory, The Rabbit Girls

“Human kind Cannot bear very much reality. Time past and time future What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. T.S. Eliot ‘Burnt Norton’ The Four Quartets”
― Anna Ellory, The Puzzle Women

“the strings of her mother’s apron”
― Anna Ellory, The Rabbit Girls

“Five steps. She imagined each one, how they would feel; would they be any different because they were walking her to freedom? In the end, however, they had been five steps too many.”
― Anna Ellory, The Rabbit Girls

“did”
― Anna Ellory, The Rabbit Girls

“Only just a woman and responsible for yourself and the opportunity to leave there? We like to think that we wouldn't, but all of us would. It's about survival, and that is why so many people don't share their stories, because they don't want to be judged by those who cannot possibly know .”
― Anna Ellory, The Rabbit Girls

“her entire class silent under the heavy weight of knowing that their parents and grandparents had lived in a time of fascism, and may well have been supporters of Hitler.”
― Anna Ellory, The Rabbit Girls

“The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.”
― Anna Ellory, The Rabbit Girls

“loud and”
― Anna Ellory, The Rabbit Girls

“You carry me in your hearts, because I made them with my own. Hold me close forever as I hold you: in every beat. Mama”
― Anna Ellory, The Puzzle Women

“Yet, although wonky, he is in his cardigan. The small change brings out the man he was, rather than the body he is confined in.”
― Anna Ellory, The Rabbit Girls

“Words hold a lot more power than we realise,”
― Anna Ellory, The Rabbit Girls

“Treat your words kindly, offer them light, because the light will turn your tears into art.”
― Anna Ellory, The Puzzle Women

“You may have lived in the dark, suffered from it, but you are the brightest of lights.”
― Anna Ellory, The Puzzle Women

“It's hidden away, forgotten. All of it. As Stalin said, one death is a tragedy, one hundred thousand a statistic and six million . . .”
― Anna Ellory, The Rabbit Girls