Cloisters Quotes

“I worried that wanting, and even hope, was greed in another shape. I stumbled on the blind edge of that wanting, that hope, when the light came on in the Cloisters.”
― Caffal, Eiren

“You don’t know they’ll be white. Maybe the Cloisters is full of Black people, and you’re the right person to knock on the door.”

I could hear a cross laugh in Keller’s quiet voice. “I’m pretty sure that the people who set up shop in a castle are going to be white. Museums: last refuge of the ruling class.”
― Eiren Caffall, All the Water in the World