Parenting Quote by Frances Hardinge

“Until yesterday Mosca had been trapped between two rivers, desperate to get out before winter arrived. Toll had looked like her only means of…

— Frances Hardinge

“Mosca felt filled with panic. She was an arsonist, runaway, thief, spy and murderer’s accomplice, and here she was of her own free will…

— Frances Hardinge

“However, the crowds all the while maintained their mouse-tense hush, their air of urgency. Fear. There was a reek of it everywhere, Mosca realized,…

— Frances Hardinge

“He was surprised, as always, to witness a new degradation, to find another display of wretchedness original enough to bring tears to his eyes.…

— Nathan Englander

Mosca and Saracen shared, if not a friendship, at least the solidarity of the generally despised. Mosca assumed that Saracen had his reasons for…

— Frances Hardinge

“We’ was such a comforting word. ‘We’ meant weathering things together. Camaraderie. Safety in numbers. All the things that Havoc and Jade and Perch…

— Frances Hardinge

“This was thieves’ cant. Mosca was a lover of words, and she had a sneaking liking for the grimy panache of cant, and those…

— Frances Hardinge

“She thought of the city at night, of cities at night. Discarded constellations of old stars, fallen from the sky, rearranged on Earth in…

— Arundhati Roy

“Moltabano, for a moment, felt moved. That astonishing, wholly feminine capacity for deep understanding, for penetrating one's feelings, for being at once mother and…

— Andrea Camilleri

“Mescalin opens up the way of Mary, but shuts the door on that Martha. It gives access to contemplation - but to a conteplation…

— Aldous Huxley

“Under this swarm of waspish self-inquiries he began to feel sorry for himself - a brilliant man trapped, a Byron tamed; and his mind…

— John Fowles

“...some small part of her had reacted to the passion inside him. Despite his role as a titled gentleman, there seemed to be a…

— Brenda Novak