The Hill in the Dark Grove Quotes

“And first of all, we built these mounds and circles for our gods to live in. Places where they would be stronger, where we could go to visit them, where they would be contained.”
― Liam Higginson, The Hill in the Dark Grove

“was thinking, isn’t it strange the way that people try to pen in what’s most sacred to them? You once said to me we used to worship trees and rocks and rivers—like how God’s supposed to be everywhere, they say. But still, we build a church to keep Him in, and He’s more in there than He’s outside, isn’t it?”
― Liam Higginson, The Hill in the Dark Grove

“Hindsight was a traitor anyway, she thought, lying awake and cold and restless while he slept his strange, taut, coiled-spring sleep beside her. Her life so far had not been over-generous when it came to second chances. What if she had married Billy Owen when he went off to become a barrister? What if she had taken up the scholarship at Durham University? What if she had traveled Europe with a backpack and a badly tuned guitar? You’re never too old, people so glibly said, but there would be no going back to try again. And she was not sure she would want to even if she could. For now, there was only forward. Hindsight was just a multiplier of regrets.”
― Liam Higginson, The Hill in the Dark Grove

“What a curse hindsight was, he thought—revealing all with perfect clarity only once the need to know had passed, so one was left to dread things which would ultimately turn out well, or stroll complacently into disaster.”
― Liam Higginson, The Hill in the Dark Grove

“Hindsight was just a multiplier of regrets”
― Liam Higginson, The Hill in the Dark Grove