For He Can Creep Quotes

“But Jeoffry shuts his ear to this voice. He has learned that there is more than one kind of devil, and that the one inside your head, that speaks with the voice of your own heart, is far more dangerous than the velvet coat-wearing, poetry-loving variety.”
― Siobhan Carroll, For He Can Creep

“Reluctantly, painfully, he detaches his tattered mind from the hard hook-pins of word and meter. He rolls away from his madness and strokes the purring, winding cat.”
― Siobhan Carroll, For He Can Creep

“What is a man to do, when God wants him to write one poem, and his creditors another?”
― Siobhan Carroll, For He Can Creep

“This is my place! he cries. Mine! “Is anything truly ours?” The devil sighs and examines his claws.”
― Siobhan Carroll, For He Can Creep