Martha Peake Quotes

“He wished only to live as a free man upon the fruits of his labor, and grow old in the natural rhythms of the earth; instead of which he was cursed, so he felt, always to be an object of disgust, or horror, which is only disgust with a portion of fear superadded- always to be in the eyes of the world a monster.”
― Patrick McGrath, Martha Peake: A Novel of the Revolution

“Harry's voice had matured like old port wine, it was deep and rich and liquid.”
― Patrick McGrath, Martha Peake: A Novel of the Revolution

“... Harry Peake's spine disturbed the people's confidence in the proper shape and form of things, a confidence they had not known they possessed, it was stitched so deep in their sense of the order of the world.”
― Patrick McGrath, Martha Peake: A Novel of the Revolution

“... he stripped his clothes off and flung himself into a heavy sea, for the sheer pleasure of getting out safe again.”
― Patrick McGrath, Martha Peake: A Novel of the Revolution