Cornish Steel Quotes

“I wipe the fog off the mirror with the towel and examine what I see in the salt-weary reflection.
I have the yellowed remains of a black eye from a tenday ago in the pub. Where Arthur is handsome, I’m lanky. Where he’s wise beyond his fifteen—nearly sixteen years–I’m seventeen and only good for a laugh. Ma and Pa would never say it, but I’m the worst first-born out there.”
― Katherine Kempf, Cornish Steel

“We thought we hit the jackpot when the fanatics from the north wanted to buy the mines and fund the dig for more ore. It kept us safe from the crises of the rest of the world. Until it didn’t.”
― Katherine Kempf, Cornish Steel

“They let us grow like gorse brambles over an old stone wall. Like we haven’t seen a pair of shears since the government dissolved.
They let us grow wild.”
― Katherine Kempf, Cornish Steel

“Here, the trees bend to the will of the wind. That is the strength of her grip.”
― Katherine Kempf, Cornish Steel