By the Pricking of Her Thumb Quotes

“O dark dark dark. It was always dark and it would always be dark and it always had been dark - or there would have been no need for the brightness of Marguerite's company.”
― Adam Roberts, By the Pricking of Her Thumb

“I know you're upset, of course you're upset," said Pu Sto's simulacrum. "You're grieving. Of course you are. I know how much you loved her."

"Love her," Alma corrected, holding up one finger. "A little thing like dying doesn't cast that mighty verb into the past tense, you know.”
― Adam Roberts, By the Pricking of Her Thumb

“And now it's afterwards. The worse of it is: it will always be afterwards now.”
― Adam Roberts, By the Pricking of Her Thumb

“That's a nice sense of immunity from prosecution you got there," Alma told them. "Be a shame if something were to happen to it.”
― Adam Roberts, By the Pricking of Her Thumb