Shadows on Our Skin Quotes

“The real world. Perhaps it was all the same. Perhaps everywhere you went people were lost, searching with desperation for something they would never find. Mutilating themselves and each other in their desperation. There was no safety.”
― Jennifer Johnston, Shadows on Our Skin

“Have they any more freedom down there than we have up here?’ ‘You misunderstand …’ ‘Is there a job for every man? And a home for everyone? Have all the children got shoes on their feet? Are there women down there scrubbing floors to keep the home together because stupid, useless old men are sitting round gassing about freedom?”
― Jennifer Johnston, Shadows on Our Skin