Half a Crown Quotes

“In the end, I sold my soul." he had said, and Abby had replied "That wasn’t the end.”
― Jo Walton, Half a Crown

“Sometimes I think dressing to go out is the best part of the evening.”
― Jo Walton, Half a Crown

“Across the street, there were parties at other windows. The sky was fading behind the roof peaks and chimney tops, which stood out like cardboard cutout silhouettes, and I looked from them to the lit windows, and back again. A flock of birds, pigeons probably, wheeled across the sky, heading home before dark.”
― Jo Walton, Half a Crown