All Among the Barley Quotes

“When I was a child, I believed that what I want mattered so little that it wasn't even worth me discovering what it might be.”
― Melissa Harrison, All Among the Barley

“But at last I came to see that there is a danger in such thinking; for you can never go back, and to make an idol of the past only disfigures the present, and makes the future harder to attain.”
― Melissa Harrison, All Among the Barley