The Sending Quotes

“‎It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.”
― Isobelle Carmody, The Sending

“Do not say only to what a child can feel, for do you not recall how powerfully you experienced emotion as a child?"..."We do not cast childhood off like the skin of a snake. It remains within us, even as we grow. It is the heart and core of us”
― Isobelle Carmody, The Sending

“It came to me then, like a chilly draught from an unseen gap, that I had always known in my deepest heart that it would be like this, a slipping away from a life full of people I had come to love, in a place I had helped to shape, in a land I had helped to free.”
― Isobelle Carmody, The Sending