The Flood-Tide Quotes

“Don’t you see how you wanted them to love you, how you plagued and tormented them, so that they could prove to you that they loved you in spite of everything, because only then would you know they had loved you enough? But it could never be enough.’ ‘I”
― Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, The Flood-Tide

“Your need to be loved is so much greater than your need to love. You are not yet able to give love, and without giving it, you cannot receive it.”
― Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, The Flood-Tide

“Danton himself was an astonishing man, with a face so scarred and ugly that it by-passed the normal rules of beauty and had an attractiveness of its own. At two he had been gored in the face by a cow, trampled by a herd of pigs at five, disfigured by small pox when he was ten, and kicked in the face by a bull when he was fourteen.”
― Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, The Flood-Tide

“Father Ramsay smiled his sphingine smile. ‘You know my opinion of buttermilk,’ he said. ‘I’ll wait for the ale.”
― Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, The Flood-Tide