Caitlin Starling > Caitlin's Quotes

“Slowly, Jane peeled herself from the sitting room, leaving behind the stale scent of old cologne, of spilled brandy, of what might have been a pleasant night except in the particulars.”
― Caitlin Starling, The Death of Jane Lawrence

“It was not so hard, to pretend for a fixed duration; it was only eternity that she could not bear”
― Caitlin Starling, The Death of Jane Lawrence

“A magician gets what she asks for, whether she meant to ask for it or not.”
― Caitlin Starling, The Death of Jane Lawrence

“That was the look of somebody resigned to being the monster they knew they were.”
― Caitlin Starling, The Luminous Dead