A Far Better Thing Quotes

“It sounds so gentle, for something to touch your heart. But anything that reaches your heart does so through flesh and muscle and bone, through every defence your body can put up to protect it.”
― H.G. Parry, A Far Better Thing

“Whatever comes of it, I’ll learn more than I know now.” “Unless,” I pointed out, “you die.” He shrugged. “Well. We all have to stop learning sometime.”
― H.G. Parry, A Far Better Thing

“Here's what I do. I think of myself in my crib, the night the fairies took me. I imagine that I died that night. Everything that happened since has happened to somebody else: a phantom who breathes and eats and sleeps, no more alive than the changeling who was left in their place. We have no say in our own destinies, no right to love, no right to be happy. We are dead. We cannot be recalled to life. When you think of that, it isn't so terribly sad. Infants die in their cradles all the time.”
― H.G. Parry, A Far Better Thing

“THE CANDLE had burned out when I returned to my lodgings. The rooms were chill and unwelcoming; in the corner of my bedroom”
― H.G. Parry, A Far Better Thing

“I had no idea I was so susceptible to kings.”
― H.G. Parry, A Far Better Thing