Quotes from book

The Lowland

“War will bring the revolution; revolution will stop the war”

“With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before”

“And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd been prepared to live her life alone but from the moment he'd known her he'd needed her.”

“She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart and her body were different things.”

“Isolation offered its own form of companionship”

“With her own hand she'd painted herself into a corner, and then out of the picture altogether.”