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“But life does not always offer understanding; it offers a road to continue traveling,” I whisper to the fire, one of the things I remember my mother telling me.”
― The Beast of Ten
― The Beast of Ten
“It is deep night, and I sit before the fire in my room. I am unable to anchor myself to—or find myself in—this fate. My mind has no solid ground. This inability to feel what is real has caught me off my guard. I feel so distant from myself. I’ve been taken out of the familiar, taken away from home and family.”
― The Beast of Ten
― The Beast of Ten
“We sin. And yet something calls us towards perfection. Do you know why? Because we’re good for it. We have the capacity to examine our lives and improve, to change. But we can’t do it just on our own.”
― The Q
― The Q
“And a Wordsworth sonnet,
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers…”
― The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers…”
― The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4
“Along with what Father calls my insight and resilience is a rather bad habit of meeting my fate head-on. Days when Hadspen and Thry had accompanied me into some small patch of mischief, it was always I who confronted Father afterwards, anxious for my consequence to be decided. Better to have knowledge of what lies before me than a false hope of lessening the blow by running away from its swing.”
― The Beast of Ten
― The Beast of Ten
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