The Dark-Eyed Girls Quotes

“Houses are just bricks and mortar, aren’t they? It’s people who matter.”
― Judith Lennox, The Dark-Eyed Girls

“…blinded by the sunlight, dazed by the way in which the rest of the world continued its complacent turning… she had to fight the impulse to call out to the carefree strangers that surrounded her and tell them that, not far away, a twenty-year-old boy was dying.”
― Judith Lennox, The Dark-Eyed Girls

“I think, that a God who hurts people to punish other people wouldn't be much of a God. But, really, I think that these things are random. That they just happen.”
― Judith Lennox, The Dark-Eyed Girls

“Nothing. What in home or school or all the idiocies of an upper-middle-class English upbringing could have made me expect that? It was like Hell, I thought. Like a medieval painting of Hell.”
― Judith Lennox, The Dark-Eyed Girls

“That was when I knew it was real. That was when I began to see that, compared to all this, I was nothing, and Lucie was nothing. When you see entire nations fleeing for their lives…”
― Judith Lennox, The Dark-Eyed Girls

“She took my breath away, you know. People say that, but they don't really mean it. It's just a cliché they use.”
― Judith Lennox, The Dark-Eyed Girls