Jane Gaskell > Quotes

“Like all these long low squat houses, it had been built not for but against. They were built against the forest, against the sea, against the elements, against the world. They had roof-beams and doors and hatred--as though in this part of the world an architect always included hatred among his tools, and said to his apprentice: 'Mind you've brought along enough hatred today.”
― Jane Gaskell, Some Summer Lands

“Will you not see?” she cried. “You are not as other men are. Why need you bow to a Fate? Can you not change it?”
― Jane Gaskell, Strange Evil

“Yes – But – Well, it is yours to choose. I do not force anyone. Is it a hard choice?”
“No-o.” Judith shook her head. “Except that I do not know which to choose.”
― Jane Gaskell, Strange Evil

“And there was something else, it seemed, now permanently part of her life. Doubt, and suspicion too, filled all that there was room for in her waking thoughts.”
― Jane Gaskell, Strange Evil