Emily Davies (libraryofcalliope)

“For a long time, all through my childhood, I thought my mother was a martyr and a saint, or at the very least angelically good. Now I realise she was simply mistaken.”
― Frances Gapper, Saints and Adventurers

“As long as she actively imagined the scenario, it would not come to pass. This was a little game she often played with herself. If she wondered whether an outfit would be her last, it wouldn't be. If she pictured herself dying today, she wouldn't. It was a silly superstition, but really what were the odds that something terrible would happen when you expected it to? Very low indeed. Nobody ever said, “My wife died today, as expected," or "I was in a terrible accident, as I predicted.”
― Virginia Feito, Mrs. March

“These memories, so clear, came as a shock. Since his death, I had hardly thought about him. He went, ceased to be so completely, leaving only a sort of emptiness.
But he was real, my brother. He was real, he was a part of my life, I loved him, he died. So simple, so difficult still to accept.”
― Frances Gapper, Saints and Adventurers

“I would say how the mighty have fallen, but I never been mighty in my life unless you talk in terms of width.”
― Jacqueline Roy, The Fat Lady Sings