Black Oxen Quotes

“Children are uncivilized, so have a staggering power to harm, especially those people whose hearts need mending. In that house an unhappy child was too much rain on a high water table. I poured it on and the terrain liquefied.”
― Elizabeth Knox, Black Oxen

“Surely it's better to be human and live with grief, than outgrow your humanity and learn to raise the dead too late to raise your own.”
― Elizabeth Knox, Black Oxen