Phebe’s Reviews > Jamaica Inn > Status Update

“The air was pure here, and crystal clear, disdaining knowledge of the world below, where living things must grope and stumble in the mist. There was a wind here that whispered in the stones and stirred the heather; there was a breath, keen as a knife and cold, that blew upon the surface of the altar slabs and echoed in the caves.”

“She had the right upon her side, and faith in God, and he was an outcast in a hell of his own creation.”

“I’ve only seen the evil… I’ve only seen the suffering there’s been, and the cruelty, and the pain. When my uncle came to Jamaica Inn he must have cast his shadow over the good things, and they died.”

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“If Death came now, he would be an ally; existence was not a thing she welcomed any more.”

“Once again this strange man of God had spoken words of logic and wisdom, and there was no argument in reply. But she was caught in the sudden fever of love that devastated reason and makes havoc of logic, therefore his words acted as an irritant and created fresh turmoil in her brain.”

“If loving a man meant this pain and anguish and sickness, she wanted none of it. It did away with sanity and composure and made havoc of courage.”

“She realized for the first time that aversion and attraction ran side by side; that the boundary line was thin between them.”

“She had killed them by her silence.”

“I’ve seen the ship break up beneath them, and the masts and yards snap like thread, and there they’ll be flung into the sea, to swim for their lives. But when they reach the shore they’re dead men, Mary… Dead men tell no tales, Mary.”