Lucretia Grindle > Quotes

“There is one thing that I do find extraordinary and it never ceases to amaze me. That even in this day and age, in any day and age, that people always insist on believing their heroes are men”
― Lucretia Grindle, Villa Triste

“Hannah Smith has grown stronger, and not just in body. Left with Tiny Hannah after her men were taken, she could have chosen to wither and sink. To become another Mary Skilling, lost in the angry madness of grief. Or a Mercy Lewis, wandering in the terror of her own shadows. Or she could turn like a ship before the winds and unfurl into the world. As she has done.”
― Lucretia Grindle, The Devil's Glove

“We are strangers here,” he says. “Newly come for a new beginning. My Hannah and I, we wish just for a good life on this land. We are not wealthy, and we are not churched, and have few acquaintances in the town. You have been good to us, Mistress. We will not forget it.”
― Lucretia Grindle, The Devil's Glove

“Trembling with something that is rage, or grief, or exhaustion, or all three, I pick up my skirts and start toward the milking shed. I must let the cows out to graze. I must help my mother and Hannah. I must care for Tiny Hannah, and my goats, and even Abigail. I must tend to all the things women tend to so men can leave.”
― Lucretia Grindle, The Devil's Glove

“Old and blended in, another worn feature of this worn city that no one notices much and no one will miss. How, she wondered, does that happen? In what year is it, exactly, that we begin to vanish, to fade into our surroundings as if they are absorbing us, pulling our bones back home?”
― Lucretia Grindle, The Villa Triste

“We carry worlds inside us. And we are, all of us at once, more than one being. Or we can be.”
― Lucretia Grindle, The Devil's Glove