Violet Fenn > Quotes

“The misery? It’s mostly created by humans in order to hold power over other humans.”
― Violet Fenn, Red & Dead

“The type who thought all women should be grateful for his aggressive attention and turned vicious when rejected.”
― Violet Fenn, Red & Dead

“Why fear the dead? said the city. It’s the living who would try to hurt you.”
― Violet Fenn, The High Gate

“These days,” he gave a tiny, elegant snort, “someone in an office presses a button and whoomph, half a city is gone. People, animals, trees, everything—gone, just like that. Where’s the sense in that?”
― Violet Fenn, The High Gate

“Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.” The Tempest, William Shakespeare”
― Violet Fenn, Lark Rising:

“Eadric was quiet, understated and quite possibly very, very dangerous.”
― Violet Fenn, The High Gate

“I’d never got on with English Lit at school. It all seemed too much like academics turning fun stories into instruments of mental torture.”
― Violet Fenn, The Dream Thief

“We’re all monsters. Monsters created from experience and memory and cruelty and kindness. Monsters bigger than humanity could ever imagine.”
― Violet Fenn, The High Gate

“Plus—well, it’s Liverpool. That city is so used to oddities and outsiders that aliens could land in Clayton Square and the worst that would happen is they’d maybe get their spaceship clamped.”
― Violet Fenn, The Dream Thief

“We’re all sorry,” he said. “At different times, and for different reasons. The trick is to know when that sorrow is justified.”
― Violet Fenn, Red & Dead

“Smoke me a kipper,” I said as I left. “I’ll be back for breakfast.”
― Violet Fenn, The High Gate

“That was back when I still thought my identity depended on those around me. I’ve learned to value myself more since then.”
― Violet Fenn, The High Gate

“See,” he said, “not everything’s visible until the lights go out.”
― Violet Fenn, Red & Dead

“We must be careful to view previous eras through a contemporary lens, rather than with the judgment of modern insight.”
― Violet Fenn, Sex and Sexuality in Victorian Britain

“There are two sides to every argument, as they say—and the truth is always somewhere in the middle.”
― Violet Fenn, Lark Rising:

“This is what the establishment does to cities who don’t follow the rules.”
― Violet Fenn, City of Ghosts: (The Netherweird Chronicles, #4).

“Never trust a man who doesn’t wear socks, my mum always said.”
― Violet Fenn, The High Gate

“Ask no secrets, get told no lies,”
― Violet Fenn, Lark Rising:

“Just a moment, ladies and gentlemen! A word before you go. We hope the memories of Dracula and Renfield won’t give you bad dreams, so just a word of reassurance. When you get home tonight, and the lights have been turned out, and you are afraid to look behind the curtains – and you dread to see a face appear at the window – why, just pull yourself together and remember that after all, there are such things as vampires!”
― Violet Fenn, A History of the Vampire in Popular Culture: Love at First Bite