Bone China Quotes

“Anger has ever been a failing of mine. When it surges, it sings in my veins like a dram of gin. Any action seems possible, reasonable. It is only afterwards, when the fire fades, that I see the dark soot-stain of what I have done.”
― Laura Purcell, Bone China

“Wind creeps along the walls outside. It sounds like a woman, pouring hushed secrets into her lover’s ear.”
― Laura Purcell, Bone China

“Ignorant people always fancied that ghosts appeared as shrouded ghouls. Anyone who had suffered loss could tell them differently. Sounds and smells haunted with more persistence, dragged you backwards in a way that nothing else could.”
― Laura Purcell, The House of Whispers