"I readÂ Butterflyâ€™s ChildÂ in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justiceâ€”and how all these things are, in time, transformed surprisingly and inevitably."

-- Josephine Humphreys

#Children Quotes #Butterfly Quotes #Justice Quotes

“You never know what's around the corner unless you peek. Hold someone's hand while you do it. You will feel less scared.”
“When the truth is ugly, people try to keep it hidden, because they know if revealed, the damage it will do. So they conceal it within sturdy walls or they place it behind closed doors or they obscure it with clever disguises but truth, no matter how ugly, always emerges. And someone we care about always ends up getting hurt. And someone else will revel in their pain and that's the ugliest truth of all.”
“When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history.”

Source : Charlotte Mary Yonge (2015). “Delphi Complete Novels of Charlotte Mary Yonge (Illustrated)”, p.7498, Delphi Classics
“My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.”
“The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.”
“Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.”
“One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk.”

Source : Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.362, Vintage
“Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics

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