Frozen Charlotte Quotes

“I saw someone leaving the house and I thought it was Lilias,” I said, clutching at the first plausible lie I could think of. “So when I saw you go out of the gate I panicked—”

“Haven’t you ever heard of sleep ?” the boy snapped. “Isn’t that what normal people do at this time of night?”

“I don’t think they sneak around clifftops on mopeds either, do they?”
― Alex Bell, Frozen Charlotte

“Oh, Lilias,” Uncle James groaned. “For heaven’s sake, why couldn’t you have drawn a flower or something?” He glanced at me and said, “I’m sorry – she’s going through a bit of a macabre phase at the moment. I suppose all children do at some point, don’t they?”

I nodded, but couldn’t remember a time when I’d ever gone around drawing grisly murder scenes and presenting them to people as gifts.”
― Alex Bell, Frozen Charlotte

“Without her coat, the frozen rock felt like knives beneath her nightgown. Knives that would peel her skin right off. A sob of pain bubbled up out of Rebecca's chest as she slowly sat up on the ledge. 'W-what did you do that for?' she cried, each breath frosting before her. With only her nightgown to protect her, the cold was almost unbearable. The frozen air made her lungs ache with the effort of breathing, and she couldn't prevent herself from shivering so violently that her bones to seemed to rattle inside her body.”
― Alex Bell, Frozen Charlotte