Karen Maitland

You've heard tales of beauty and the beast. How a fair maid falls in love with a monster and sees the beauty…

— Karen Maitland

Rain slips through your fingers as easily as words blow away in the wind, and yet it has the power to destroy…

— Karen Maitland

But then, the flames of a fire are not made less painful by the knowledge that others are burning with you.

— Karen Maitland

“I'd believed mine was the greatest of all the arts, the noblest of all the lies, the creation of hope. I thought…

— Karen Maitland

“We couldn't bring the sheep back to life, so there was nothing for it but to eat the evidence.”

— Karen Maitland

Id love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover what dark secrets really…

— Karen Maitland

“I had seen that errible look on a man's face before, on the faces of those being dragged to the gallows. Some…

— Karen Maitland

“King John won't need any persuading that the French have a hand in this. From what I've heard, if a bean gives…

— Karen Maitland

“Why do mortals think that suffering is a coin with which they can buy justice or salvation? ... life is a steal…

— Karen Maitland

“They say despair is a terrible thing, but hope is worse: it keeps you shackled for ever, like a dog in a…

— Karen Maitland

People sense that our reaction to phenomena such as epidemics or religious war is not that different to how we reacted to…

— Karen Maitland

Home is the place you return to when you have finally lost your soul. Home is the place where life is born,…

— Karen Maitland

“We had taken her for granted until she was no longer there, like an ancient tree you don't truly see until it…

— Karen Maitland

The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, as politicians often behave no better than…

— Karen Maitland

“Hope is a beautiful lie and it requires talent to create it for others.”

— Karen Maitland

People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.

— Karen Maitland

“The day that I left my home, I had prayed that my children would forget me. I wanted to spare them the…

— Karen Maitland

“God's hand can be seen in any occurrence for those who are determined to find it there, but then again, so can…

— Karen Maitland

I wanted desperately to go on living in someone's memory. If we are not remembered, we are more than dead, for it…

— Karen Maitland

“She’s one of the fay folk; half of her is a woman, but she has the legs of a goat, except no…

— Karen Maitland

They all wait impatiently for the blessed cloak of darkness to cover their wretched little deeds, but the sun will not be…

— Karen Maitland

“Are you finally admitting that you can sell a man hope? Have I at last succeeded in teaching you that?” He laughed…

— Karen Maitland

Reckon it's best if u don't have anyone u care about; then it can't hurt u. Don't have to be afraid of…

— Karen Maitland

“Mortals are strange creatures; they cling to life even when that life is nothing but pain and misery, yet they will throw…

— Karen Maitland

“They were just the ordinary sounds of of people beginning their day, silly raucous, discordant, but they were the most beautiful sounds…

— Karen Maitland