Polly Clarke

“He dragged a thick line through my name. It felt like a knife scraping across my throat.”
― Antonia Hodgson, The Devil in the Marshalsea

“I'm sure it's wrong to go on being good for too long, till one gets miserable. And I can see you've been good for years and years, because you look so unhappy.”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, The Enchanted April

“Rhetoric worked beautifully when applied to simple things like the nature of God, but how was one to use it in the chaos of human actions?”
― Sharan Newman, Death Comes As Epiphany

“The tree was gnarled with age, scarred and weather-worn. One of it's thickest branches stretched further than the rest, as if pointing at something far in the distance, in warning or in accusation.”
― Antonia Hodgson, The Devil in the Marshalsea