Wormwood Abbey Quotes

“One doesn’t beat about the bush when one is standing on a tower at moonrise watching for a wyvern.”
― Christina Baehr, Wormwood Abbey

“You simply can’t cry and sing loudly at the same time, and if you try, you’ll only end up laughing and then half of your problem is solved.”
― Christina Baehr, Wormwood Abbey

“It won’t do for me to write there; he’ll talk to me. He’ll read out bits of books to me every time I have a thought, and my thoughts will run screaming away.”
― Christina Baehr, Wormwood Abbey

“Which meant that firstly, Drake was an absolute beast. And secondly, he knew his Austen. And that was a paradox I could not fathom.”
― Christina Baehr, Wormwood Abbey

“I decided to cheer myself up by singing the Doxology at the top of my lungs. You simply can’t cry and sing loudly at the same time, and if you try, you’ll only end up by laughing and then half of your problem is solved.”
― Christina Baehr, Wormwood Abbey

“I was Theseus in the labyrinth with no magical guide - and at my feet, lay a victim of the Minotaur.”
― Christina Baehr, Wormwood Abbey

“In this moment, this one fragile moment, that I suddenly wanted to hold in the gentlest of hands, it seemed suddenly possible for us to be friends.”
― Christina Baehr, Wormwood Abbey