The High Gate Quotes

“Smoke me a kipper,” I said as I left. “I’ll be back for breakfast.”
― Violet Fenn, The High Gate

“That was back when I still thought my identity depended on those around me. I’ve learned to value myself more since then.”
― Violet Fenn, The High Gate

“These days,” he gave a tiny, elegant snort, “someone in an office presses a button and whoomph, half a city is gone. People, animals, trees, everything—gone, just like that. Where’s the sense in that?”
― Violet Fenn, The High Gate

“Why fear the dead? said the city. It’s the living who would try to hurt you.”
― Violet Fenn, The High Gate

“We’re all monsters. Monsters created from experience and memory and cruelty and kindness. Monsters bigger than humanity could ever imagine.”
― Violet Fenn, The High Gate

“Never trust a man who doesn’t wear socks, my mum always said.”
― Violet Fenn, The High Gate

“Eadric was quiet, understated and quite possibly very, very dangerous.”
― Violet Fenn, The High Gate