The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School Quotes

“Curious, Amy asked Absalom how anarchists celebrated the holidays. The girl explained her family exchanged radical pamphlets and gelignite recipes while dining on a roast swan her father had specifically poached from a royal estate. Instead of carols around a tree, they sang revolutionary songs in front of a fire into which they threw straw dollies made in the image of kings, presidents, colossi of finance and secret police chiefs. Absalom and her sisters nibbled biscuits decorated with red sugar stars and slogans of the struggle.”
― Kim Newman, The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School

“It was a wonder a period of history so full of people having their heads chopped off could be made to seem so blindingly dull.”
― Kim Newman, The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School

“Sporty, terrifying, babies and posh, yes. What are we?’ ‘Desdemona? Red-headed stepchildren. Who don’t fit anywhere else.”
― Kim Newman, The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School