The Witch's Cradle Quotes

“The trouble with Barry and his mates was that they knew too much. After the recession, a good many of their hard-working, responsible families had found themselves up to their necks in debt and made ill by the terrors of penury, the very penury their parents had come to the new town to escape.”
― Gillian White, The Witch's Cradle

“But she didn’t forget all about it, oh, no. She didn’t forget all about things with so few diversions in her life. Instead they assumed enormous proportions, and if she wasn’t careful she’d find herself dreaming.”
― Gillian White, The Witch's Cradle

“Eventually she would manage to forget that they were even present, so quickly and foolishly do human beings adjust to unfamiliar situations.”
― Gillian White, The Witch's Cradle

“gormless”
― Gillian White, The Witch's Cradle