Judith Stopforth

“Be silent and learn something.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“Within this impossible sea, every star, every constellation, every fold and spiral of the cosmos was reflected. As if there were two firmaments, and their ship was a ghost ship, adrift between worlds. The sea had turned itself to glass, so the heavens might finally look upon themselves.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“For the first time I understood something my grandmother told me years before, that it's not our deeds that hurt us, but what they make us believe about ourselves.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Journey of the Heart

“I wanted her to give me the gift of her past, so that I would no longer be shut out from any part of her life.”
― Catherine M. Wilson, A Journey of the Heart