Come and Find Me Quotes

“Anger comes from fear. Anyone who’s ever cornered a cat knows that.”
― Sarah Hilary, Come and Find Me

“Cameras make ghosts out of people.’ Bob Dylan, of all people,”
― Sarah Hilary, Come and Find Me

“Marnie thought of the fierceness of mothers, all the ways in which they battle for their children, all the ways in which it can go wrong.”
― Sarah Hilary, Come and Find Me

“In the Middle Ages, people believed the devil lived in the souls of unbaptised children. A baptism drove him out, but he had to be able to exit the church. So they built these little doorways which they bricked up after the devil was gone. You wouldn’t want him trapped in the church, you see. The devil’s door in the reclamation yard was very small, and riddled with worm.”
― Sarah Hilary, Come and Find Me

“Except the cars weren’t to be played with. He had shelves and shelves of them but not to play with, only to look at.’ Loss could compel a person to collect,”
― Sarah Hilary, Come and Find Me

“Mum oh-Teddying as if she hadn’t grown up in the countryside, didn’t know its savageries, so casual and constant.”
― Sarah Hilary, Come and Find Me

“So I send my thoughts out of the cell, miles away, to my favourite landscape. We lived in the countryside-proper, Mum and me, a place where it still floods every spring. We’d go walking in the hills when the winter thawed, high up where the waters couldn’t reach us. I never told Mickey about that. He wasn’t interested in my stories, only in his.”
― Sarah Hilary, Come and Find Me

“The art of the empty soul. Didn’t someone say all great paintings contain a little poison?’ ‘Yeah, I’d call this a tsunami. You ever seen anything like it?”
― Sarah Hilary, Come and Find Me