Beastings Quotes

“Because that’s what they were like. People. They gossiped. They celebrated the misfortune of others. They loved to hate as much as they loved their other sins and they always needed targets. That hate had to go somewhere otherwise it would chew them up inside and make them take a hard look at themselves and no-one likes to do that because they rarely like what they see.”
― Benjamin Myers, Beastings

“The girl was not afraid of ghosts or spectres; neither apparitions nor jack o’ lanterns black dogs boggles wraiths or the green men that were said to stalk the woods and hollows and fells of the north country. Those that the other girls had told tales of. No. It was people that made her fearful.”
― Benjamin Myers, Beastings