Out of mind Quotes

“Notes on the Leper Colony and Insane Asylums on Robben Island:
In the winter, wild North westerly gales sweep in across the Island, battering the shore and bringing with them a dense sea mist that shrouds everything in its path. Despite the light and the foghorn many ships have foundered on those dark rocks. Perhaps this gives rise to the story that it is not only the crying of the seabirds that can be heard on dark winter nights. There are other stories about lost souls...”
― Barbara Townsend, Out of mind

“Vera did not reply. He had called her careless, was blaming her, passing judgment and in this he was no different to all other men: they had their way with women, but God forbid the woman they wanted to marry should be sullied. Even one who had been trapped...”
― Barbara Townsend, Out of mind

“What a fool he’d been to think fair play counted for something with the men who were in charge of the Island! Officially of course, that was only Saunders and the Commissioner, but Mr Wade was in charge of the all-important government ferry from the mainland, and Mr Gubb was in charge of the stores that arrived. They were all in it together, behaving like the rulers of kingdoms he had read about as a child. He gave a bitter laugh. And what a kingdom it was! This miserable collection of society’s outcasts and junior officials who dared not oppose their authority!”
― Barbara Townsend, Out of mind