The Thief on the Winged Horse Quotes

“Those men don't want to look at beauty. They want to look at something made for them, to confirm their desire is the most important thing in the world; they want their dolls like they want their women, a painted smile, no internal life of her own and you can blame her for your passions.”
― Kate Mascarenhas, The Thief on the Winged Horse

“Love hardly ever happens. Most people are only presenting a reasonable facsimile of the thing, and they know it's not real, it's just an act we're all agreed on.”
― Kate Mascarenhas, The Thief on the Winged Horse

“Sometimes I'm in love with Persephone," Larkin confessed. "And sometimes I'm not, but I want to be. And sometimes I'm relieved to feel nothing for her at all.”
― Kate Mascarenhas, The Thief on the Winged Horse

“A lump formed in his throat as he remembered sun-lit bluebells in St Ignatius's churchyard, and kicking a red ball into long grass under the yews. That's not home, he insisted to himself, but he realised he was longing for his younger self, not the place, and never having felt homesickness before, wondered if that was true for everyone who spoke of it.”
― Kate Mascarenhas, The Thief on the Winged Horse

“Persephone believed that feelings were, in themselves, neither positive nor negative - it was a matter of balance and what use feelings were put to in one's dealings with the world. She thought of the First World War dolls, courage was a supposedly positive attribute, but these dolls had helped send boys as young as 14 to their deaths. And from personal experience for And Persephone knew that a demand to be happy could be a effacing, even brutal, when you had cause for discontent.”
― Kate Mascarenhas, The Thief on the Winged Horse

“Persephone believed that feelings were, in themselves, neither positive or negative - it was a matter of balance, and what use feelings were put to in one's dealings with the world.”
― Kate Mascarenhas, The Thief on the Winged Horse

“Happy is as happy does, my brother. If she dwelled on her misfortunes less, then less misfortune would befall her.”
― Kate Mascarenhas, The Thief on the Winged Horse

“Wealth had made him a poor judge of other people's motivations and reactions. So often, money had allowed him not to care how other people felt at all.”
― Kate Mascarenhas, The Thief on the Winged Horse