The Uninvited Guests Quotes

“Sometimes the dream sent her flying high around Sterne like a bird, with the roofs spinning away beneath her; the chimneys, stables, gardens and country filling her eyes. Then plunged back to earth by waking, she inhabited her bed alone, and wept for her lost infinity.”
― Sadie Jones, The Uninvited Guests

“Charlotte looked about her, haunted, at the edifying squareness of Sterne’s hall. ‘It’s a great mistake ever to imagine one is home,’ she said brokenly and sank onto the bottom stair.”
― Sadie Jones, The Uninvited Guests

“I don't think I've changed at all,' said Emerald, knowing herself to be lying, but there was a mist between her and her childhood self, made up of grief and multiple small denials, and she did not care to try to look through it.”
― Sadie Jones, The Uninvited Guests