Victoria Scott > Quotes

“waxes lyrical about him over lunch.”
― Victoria Scott, The Lost Children

“She had named her when she had felt her first kick. Had sung to her at bedtime, had read to her in the early hours, and had whispered to her at dawn. They had grown to love each other. And now they were to be parted.”
― Victoria Scott, Grace

“When you're only ever the recipient of things, ever the object and never the subject, you are forced to digest them, to ruminate on them, to really see them...”
― Victoria Scott, Patience

“She is creative and caring. She is a mother, but also a woman with talents and needs. She is independent, but not alone. She has a community here. She has a tribe. And she has a new understanding of the natural world, and her place within it.”
― Victoria Scott, The Storyteller's Daughter

“embarrassed, in the way humans so often are, by proximity to death. It is so rarely acknowledged and almost never discussed.”
― Victoria Scott, The Storyteller's Daughter

“It’ll be all right. I know you can’t see your way out of the darkness at the moment, but I promise you, you’ll find a way through it.”
― Victoria Scott, The Storyteller's Daughter