1885 Quotes

“I don't know if there are any ghosts here,” he said out loud. “I might be wrong, there might be several. But if you are here, you must realize that people are capable of the most incredible cruelty. They don't need ghosts and long-dead folk coming back to make them do these things. Their minds are already pretty much wrecked, and it only takes a small push to tip them over the edge. I really don't think that there's any need for ghosts to get involved.”
― Amy Cross, 1885

“Too late?” Peter replied with a stony expression. “I admire your optimism, but I fear the point of no return might well have been reached long before you and I were even born. We are too late by a matter not of minutes or hours, but of centuries.”
― Amy Cross, 1885

“She will stay here and marry a nice local man,” she said with a sigh, before neatening his fringe. “Women cannot do the same things as men.” “Is that fair?” “What does 'fair' have to do with anything?” she asked, taking a step back once she was satisfied with his appearance. “It's just the way the world works, and -”
― Amy Cross, 1885

“After all, I am not better than anybody else. I am just another wife, married to just another man, raising more children for the world's engine to consume. What is the point of my existence,”
― Amy Cross, 1885