Amberlough Quotes

“Among the brooks and gorse and muddy stone, he let the façade fall. His own weakness broke his heart, and frightened him.”
― Lara Elena Donnelly, Amberlough

“You've no idea what you've cost me. Not the faintest trace of an understanding.”
― Lara Elena Donnelly, Armistice

“Daoud sighed. "You really think that he is still alive?"

"I know that I need to see for myself," said Aristide, staring at the white blots of cold cream on the carpet between his shoes. "Or I will live the rest of my life like a man with a toothache he cannot leave alone, and I will poke at it until it grows into an abscess, bursts, and kills me.”
― Lara Elena Donnelly, Armistice

“You know...I don't mind disappointing people. Perhaps that's a flaw in my character, but I think it has rather more to do with other people's failure to manage their own expectations. And everyone seems to have such varied expectations of me, how could I hope to fulfil them all?”
― Lara Elena Donnelly, Amnesty