The Welsh Girl Quotes

“This is what men will never understand, she realizes...Their dishonor, men's dishonor, can always be redeemed, defeat followed by victory, capture by escape, escape by capture. Up hill and down dale. But women are dishonored once and for all. Their only hope is to hide it. To keep it to themselves.”
― Peter Ho Davies, The Welsh Girl

“Maybe it's a kind of freedom too. To stay home.”
― Peter Ho Davies, The Welsh Girl

“sniffing the musty air and peering up at the blotchy continents of mildew, the parchment-colored walls rising to the long ridge above,”
― Peter Ho Davies, The Welsh Girl