Sourdough and Other Stories Quotes

“there’s a part of us which is still yearning for the tales that we were told as children, the ones that shaped us, the ones that taught us the value of imagination. Fairy tales may very well be the greatest of all the tales we’ll ever read; when we’re first given them they seem so simple, so easily recognisable—and as we grow older, we see the darkness behind them, their passions and their horrors.”
― Angela Slatter, Sourdough and Other Stories

“Some lost things are meant to stay that way and it’s best not to go looking. Sometimes the lost things—they look back.”
― Angela Slatter, Sourdough and Other Stories

“People, said Sybille, were not meant to be alone. Men and women, women and women, men and men, all should find each other. Solitude was for those broken beyond repair.”
― Angela Slatter, Sourdough and Other Stories

“Nigra sum sed formosa,”
― Angela Slatter, Sourdough and Other Stories