Constance

“Scratch a professor and you find a paranoiac, Barlow thought. But scratch a dean and you find a con artist.”
― Paul La Farge, The Night Ocean

“In all my years I've realized there are two kinds of people. The ones who hear a creak in a dark, lonely house, and shut the windows because it must have been the wind. And the ones who hear a creak in a dark, lonely house, light a candle, and go to take a look.

[Helen Black]”
― Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters

“Life renewed itself, over and over, without sympathy.”
― Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters

“Nothing changed, in the aftermath of loss. Songs kept getting written. Books kept getting read. Wars didn't stop....Life renewed itself, over and over, without sympathy. Time surged on in its usual rhythms, those comings and goings, beginnings and ends, sensible progressions that fixed things in place, without a thought to the whistling in the woods on the outskirts of town....”
― Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters