Jane Gent

“There are many dark forces at work within our world and to dismiss them is foolhardy. When evil triumphs over good, it is not because the good has failed, but that the evil was stronger.”
― Jenni Keer, The Ravenswood Witch

“Today would have been my son’s fourteenth birthday, and for all these years, this is what I have put my friends through. I have condemned them to a crippling carefulness in order to spare my feelings, and it has taken Hugo’s big mouth to make me realise it. My grief has become an addiction; a bad habit like a tattered comfort blanket that I have hung on to for far too long. It has to stop. I look in the mirror again, and try to see my face as a stranger would see it. It has all the requisite physical components to make it reasonably attractive; green eyes, full but well-shaped lips and a strong, straight nose. But there is no spark or spirit behind those eyes, and there is an expression of ingrained defeat haunting every gaunt contour of that woman’s face. That woman in the mirror is not me. She is the spectre that I have allowed myself to become and I don’t want to be her any more. I want to be the old Masha; the one I pray to God is still hiding inside me somewhere, hanging on by the tips of her fingernails.”
― Ruth Hogan, The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes

“I learned to understand my emotions and with that knowledge came a certain degree of control. I have”
― Ruth Hogan, The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes

“that our memories are forever evolving, so we only remember the version of the memory we last recalled rather than the original event.”
― Claire Douglas, The Couple at No. 9