Emma Cole > Quotes

“I believe there are no random meetings in our lives― that everyone we touch, who touches us, has been put in our path for a reason. The briefest encounter can open a door, or heal a wound, or close a circle that was started long before your birth...you never know.”
― Emma Cole, Every Secret Thing

“beginning was a problem in itself, in that this story started long before my birth. In many ways, it isn’t even properly my story; yet I chose, at last, to start where I came into it, and let the tales of those who came before me weave their way into the narrative. Not everyone who spoke to me survived. And there were stories I learnt later, that were placed throughout the”
― Emma Cole, Every Secret Thing

“I believe there are no random meetings in our lives – that everyone we touch, who touches us, has been put in our path for a reason. The briefest encounter can open a door, or heal a wound, or close a circle that was started long before your birth…you never know.”
― Emma Cole, Every Secret Thing

“It smelt of panelling and polish and the dust that settles into velvet curtains, and above our heads a chandelier of perfect crystal teardrops trapped the light and spun it out again against the golden walls in little rainbow arcs that wavered with the slightest breath of movement.”
― Emma Cole, Every Secret Thing

“They also serve, who only stand and wait.”
― Emma Cole, Every Secret Thing