Beth Cartwright > Quotes

“The world stood - watchful, whispering, wonderful - counting down the minutes to the end of something frayed and worn at the edges, and to the start of something woven with promise and hope. The old unravelling into the new, when another year was safely tucked into the warm folds of memory”
― Beth Cartwright, Feathertide

“Secretly, the heart navigated you to where it needed you to be.”
― Beth Cartwright, Feathertide

“All stories deserve to be finished. And once you begin, you must continue until you reach the end.”
― Beth Cartwright, The House of Sorrowing Stars

“A book is an invitation into another person's world - real or imagined- so how can you be a trespasser when you have been invited in?”
― Beth Cartwright, The House of Sorrowing Stars

“You do not have to agree, but you cannot blame someone for not wanting to feel their pain. Grief is being lost in familiar places. It is not seasonal. It doesn't bloom brightly in the sunshine, and wither away during the winter months. It is evergreen. And it it entirely your own.”
― Beth Cartwright, The House of Sorrowing Stars

“Sometimes the person you end up with is not the person you love most in the world.”
― Beth Cartwright, The House of Sorrowing Stars

“She laughed and handed me a slab of toast and I watched a fizz of butter quickly melt into its warmth.”
― Beth Cartwright, Feathertide

“Time is neglected, forgotten, squandered, people fritter it away like careless gamblers. In a single moment everything can change and you can lose it all. People always want it back, but time is unredeemable.”
― Beth Cartwright, Feathertide

“The world doesn’t always understand things that are different.”
― Beth Cartwright, Feathertide

“Of course I will - my name is not a secret. I am Eloura; I am a book-weaver, a story-spinner, a protector, a collector and a brewer of fine tea. I navigate vast stretches of water to find my way onto different shores, each one an unopened book. Decades might pass between one journey and the next, sometimes centuries, but I always find my way between the stories and back again.”
― Beth Cartwright, The House of Sorrowing Stars

“In my rage, I has destroyed what I loved most and, in doing so, the only person I had punished was myself.”
― Beth Cartwright, Feathertide

“To me you will always be beautiful, and I never lied about that, but people see things in lots of different ways and I can’t change that.”
― Beth Cartwright, Feathertide