The Evening Spider Quotes

“Of course, it was not blood that attracted me to the Mary Stannard affair—not at first. It was not the violence or even the scandal. It was the way all of the minute elements of it promised to affect the outcome. It was that lovely notion that if you broke the event and its objects into enough tiny parts, and examined them thoroughly enough, you could arrive at the truth.”
― Emily Arsenault, The Evening Spider

“And I think the lesson is not that we can all grow to be beautiful, but there is a place of love and comfort for all of us, somewhere, somehow, if we endure for long enough to find it. Don’t you think, ma’am? I don’t know, Tessa. To me, the cruelty is more memorable than the rare and lucky fate of the ending.”
― Emily Arsenault, The Evening Spider