Sjgomzi’s Reviews > The Path of Thorns > Status Update

“Home might be a pile of shit, but they’ll stay because it’s warm and the smell is familiar and they’ll cling to that. They’ll cling to it because leaving, walking into the rain to be washed clean would mean being cold and wet, walking away from what you know will mean being lost. No matter that you will make a new way, a new path – the majority of folk don’t get beyond their fear of change.”

😳

“She left here long ago; I don’t know where she went. She might be no more than dust and bones.”

Answers and some ugly truth. Still loving this beautifully written slow burn of a book.

“Ghosts can be left behind, but they can find you too. I had hoped I’d travelled far enough.”

‘I hear you met my sisters the other day. They said you were a bitch.”
“They struck me as uniquely qualified to recognise a kindred soul, then.” 😁

“‘Oh. Well, children can be fanciful,’ I say as if I don’t know better. As if I don’t know that much of the strangeness children see is real, that it peeks from the darkness because it knows adults don’t listen to young ones.”

Starting my first A.G. Slatter book and we’re off to a good start. 🙂