The Girl from Rawblood Quotes

“We are a fine pair,’ I said. ‘The sodomite opium-eaters.”
― Catriona Ward, Rawblood

“The little girl looks at me. Horror on her small white face, and fear. She puts her thin child’s body between me and him.”
― Catriona Ward, Rawblood

“Don Villarca gazed at her. ‘What a great pleasure,’ he said, ‘lies in the condemnation of others.”
― Catriona Ward, Rawblood

“Punch is a small, hairy terrier of the best kind, full of grumbling and sudden thoughts.”
― Catriona Ward, Rawblood

“I will let you have it all, I vowed; take this awkward parcel of flesh and let me return to the dark.”
― Catriona Ward, Rawblood

“It is so that death sits beside us every day, until it is forced upon our notice. Until the vessel breaks open and life flows out, we must be blind and deaf to its presence, or we could not conduct our carnival as we do.”
― Catriona Ward, The Girl from Rawblood