The Dark Unwinding Quotes

“Warm sun and robin's-egg skies were inappropriate conditions for sending one's uncle to a lunatic asylum.”
― Sharon Cameron, The Dark Unwinding

“I said, 'tart'!" she snapped.
Lane's brows went up, but I merely continued to smile, choosing to assume that her answer was a reference to where the berries should go, and not to my person.”
― Sharon Cameron, The Dark Unwinding

“She was the clock, a clock that had lost its key, unwinding in the dark.”
― Sharon Cameron, The Dark Unwinding

“I knew full well that Lane considered himself more family than servant to my uncle, and that my uncle felt the same; the only real question was who considered himself the father and who the child.”
― Sharon Cameron, The Dark Unwinding

“Simon’s baby,” he said, rocking on his heels. “Simon’s baby girl. But you are too many, much too many to be Simon’s baby girl. How many are you?”

“Seventeen,” I whispered. He was still uncomfortably close.

“Lane!” he shouted. I jumped. “Do I have a niece of seventeen?”

“Yes,” came Lane’s voice from the door.

The old man relaxed. “Then that is as it should be. Lane always knows when things are as they should be. Where is your father, little niece?”
― Sharon Cameron, The Dark Unwinding

“Surely there was not another soul in England that could delude themselves like I could.”
― Sharon Cameron, The Dark Unwinding

“Le persone si stancano quando sono troppo grandi.”
― Sharon Cameron, The Dark Unwinding

“Credo che tuo zio Tulman abbia perso il suo equilibrio mentale.”
― Sharon Cameron, The Dark Unwinding

“It had seemed so natural when he said my Christian name, thoughtless even, and yet never had I heard it spoken in such a way. In his voice, my name had almost been...beautiful.”
― Sharon Cameron, The Dark Unwinding

“In his voice, my name had almost been...beautiful.”
― Sharon Cameron, The Dark Unwinding