Quotes by D. H. Parry

“She had tried when she turned sixteen to think of herself as a woman, like Jane Eyre or Elizabeth Bennet or the multitudes of heroines who lived in her books, but in her head she wasn't there. They were all older than her, and had all, even Jane, seen more of life. And yet she was too old to be Sara Crewe or Alice or Wendy Darling either. She was a liminal person, trapped between a world she'd grown out of and another that wouldn't let her in. It was one reason why she wanted to leave the island so badly--- the hope that leaving the place she'd grown up would help her leave her childhood behind. Not forever, not yet. But for a visit, to see what it was like.””

“You could die in the war," she reminded him."I know. And I'm scared of that too. But I'd die free, at least, or as free as people like us can ever be.""Does that matter, really?""I don't know," he admitted with a sigh. "But it feels like it should.””

“She was a liminal person, trapped between a world she'd grown out of and another that wouldn't let her in. It was one reason why she wanted to leave the island so badly - the hope that leaving the place she'd grown up would help her leave her childhood behind. Not forever, not yet. But for a visit, to see what it was like.””

“Mirrors show what’s there,” Rowan had told her once. It was after she’d read and wanted to know if it was true that vampires didn’t have reflections. “I’ve never heard of anything showing in one. More likely if a vampire looked in a mirror, he’d see himself as he truly was, fangs, wrinkles and whatever else. More’s the pity. It would be nice if mirrors lied when you look in them.”“You think you look wonderful in mirrors,” Biddy had said to him sternly. He laughed. “Only because I hardly ever look in them.””

“She breathed in, trying to draw her thoughts about her. Rowan would tell her to stop and think. He always did when she was scared. As a little girl, she’d often freeze halfway up the trees he was teaching her to climb, frightened by the stirring of the branches in the wind. he would say, lightly, confidently, as if it was an indisputable fact and not a reassurance. you ””