Kit Whitfield > Quotes

“wobbling a little on their flexible legs; neither of them could manage it as gracefully as Erzebet.”
― Kit Whitfield, In Great Waters: A Novel

“If you talked to the landsmen face to face they seemed capable of reason, but put them in charge of things, of objects and language and sounds and they became idiots.”
― Kit Whitfield, In Great Waters: A Novel

“His mother watched him for a moment, then turned. She had to thrash to free herself from the bank, and then she was gone, swimming fast out to sea.”
― Kit Whitfield, In Great Waters: A Novel

“God forgave. There was infinite mercy in Heaven; this she believed. There had to be, when there was so little mercy on earth.”
― Kit Whitfield, In Great Waters: A Novel

“They—they married each other. They are too close to all being brothers and sisters now. Their children are not always strong.”
― Kit Whitfield, In Great Waters: A Novel