“I’d spent so long pretending to be Scarlet that maybe the old Ivy had faded away.”
“Some of the trees hung their branches down almost as far as the surface, as if they were trying to stroke it with long bony fingers.”
“My name is Scarlet Grey, and until today I thought I would be lost forever.”
“And we have another student who has returned from spending some time abroad as well... Miss Adams, please stand up as well."
I couldn't believe it.
Vile Violet.
She was back.”
“It fell, and then the words came."
...
"We are the Whispers in the Walls.”
“Emmeline Adel.
...
"Ivy, you need to look at this."
...
Our mother? At Rookwood?”
“Rose, what are you-" Violet started.
We all turned.
Someone was there.
It was Penny.”
“The food was slices of some kind of roast meat in a watery gravy,”
“Without a word, I walked over to the door and opened it. And when the policeman stepped in, the look on Mr Bartholomew’s face was priceless.”
“a cupboard, but there seemed to be … stairs? Ivy had brought a candle stub, which she lit with a”
“My attitude. It’s what I fed off of as well. It’s what made people like me.”
“This is not a new idea; this is the idea of the age of reason. This is the philosophy that guided the men that made the democracy that we live under. The idea that no one really knew how to run a government led to the idea that we should arrange a system by which new ideas could be developed, tried out, and tossed out if necessary, with more new ideas brought in—a trial and error system.”
“Very well. Now, if you stimulate those damaged places in your brain again, you run the risk of opening up the old wounds. I mean, that if you get nerve-sensations of any kind producing the reactions which we call horror, fear, and sense of responsibility, they may go on to make disturbance right along the old channel, and produce in their turn physical changes which you will call by the names you were accustomed to associate with them—dread of German mines, responsibility for the lives of your men, strained attention and the inability to distinguish small sounds through the overpowering noise of guns.” “I”
“I sit down on the curb, outside the Opera. People passing look at me. I will wait here for a hundred years. Or until the hot meat of romance is cooled by the dull gravy of common sense once more”
“Meeting a Zen master on the road, Face him neither with words nor silence. Give him an uppercut And you will be called one who understands Zen.”
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