The Dark Library Quotes

“My mother never lit her own cigarette when a man was handy.”
― Mary Anna Evans, The Dark Library

“To become smaller, a person has to lose something.”
― Mary Anna Evans, The Dark Library

“She had spent her life twisting herself in knots to please him, but there is no rope stronger than the umbilical cord. Its shadow binds us to our mothers for life.”
― Mary Anna Evans, The Dark Library

“I was not so desperate for companionship that I was willing to figure out how to be less strange, so I had decided that my own company was more than sufficient.”
― Mary Anna Evans, The Dark Library

“When you stand so high above the ground, leaning against a frail iron railing, and when you remember that the only person waiting for you at home is paid to do so, it is only natural to tempt your dark side.”
― Mary Anna Evans, The Dark Library

“I suppose there are more soul-destroying places to die than at the foot of an ivory tower, but I can’t think of many.”
― Mary Anna Evans, The Dark Library