The Crossing of Ingo Quotes

“For you where never my blood sister so no more shall I call you little sister”
― Helen Dunmore, The Crossing of Ingo

“I've known for a long time about dolphins getting caught in nets and drowning there. But knowing is not the same as seeing it with your own eyes. I feel heavy, sad and responsible.”
― Helen Dunmore, The Crossing of Ingo

“Some things, if you don't do them, they follow you all your life, whispering in your ear," says Granny Carne. She faces me sternly as if she's judging me. "You'll find a dozen good reasons why you pulled back from the Call, and you'll even fool yourself that you had no other choice. But in your bed at night you'll curse yourself for a coward.”
― Helen Dunmore, The Crossing of Ingo

“You will come back to us?'
'Yes, I will come back. I belong to Ingo now.”
― Helen Dunmore, The Crossing of Ingo

“It must be quite hard when you're a parent and you find out that your children's dreams are nothing like the dreams you've had for them.”
― Helen Dunmore, The Crossing of Ingo

“I suppose it's easier to kill people if you can pretend to yourself that they're not really people at all.”
― Helen Dunmore, The Crossing of Ingo

“Your life can change in the blink of an eye, on a calm and beautiful Midsummer night. You lose what you love while you think it is still safe beside you.”
― Helen Dunmore, The Crossing of Ingo

“People say how amazing communications are these days, because you can feel as if you're in the same room as someone in Australia.But you don't really feel that way.You keep telling each other news about your lives,but it feels false.”
― Helen Dunmore, The Crossing of Ingo