Savage Her Reply Quotes

“Perhaps I am a dark, unpleasant creature. But I am my own creature. I am mine, my feet on the earth and the water in my soul and fire in my heart. And when all is taken from me I will still have my anger and my pain and they will feed me.”
― Deirdre Sullivan, Savage Her Reply

“How could I give what I had never known?”
― Deirdre Sullivan, Savage Her Reply

“A child's want in a woman's heart is dangerous”
― Deirdre Sullivan, Savage Her Reply

“The thought of being in the world was too much to bear.”
― Deirdre Sullivan, Savage Her Reply

“You cannot trust a story. Even mine. Remember that.”
― Deirdre Sullivan, Savage Her Reply

“I was beautiful. I was no longer beautiful. I was difficult.”
― Deirdre Sullivan, Savage Her Reply

“Fer Tuinne, could play well enough to enchant a hall. Well enough, it was said, that he could soothe a warrior in battle-fury or a woman in the throes of giving birth to a peaceful sleep. Make them forget the anger, or the pain. And for a time, my new home was like that. But music fades, and there are things you can't escape entirely.”
― Deirdre Sullivan, Savage Her Reply

“The world is an old tongue softly whispered, but the sound of it is getting hoarser. I can feel my own thoughts getting away from me, not as they did before, when I was younger, in a tumult, but atrophying, fading into static, stony nothing. I am becoming glimpses of myself.”
― Deirdre Sullivan, Savage Her Reply

“Creation is no small feat, listen I am a person or memory of one.”
― Deirdre Sullivan, Savage Her Reply

“In the stomach, hope and fear are sisters.”
― Deirdre Sullivan, Savage Her Reply

“Innocent creatures may not know precisely why we hurt them, but there is an instinct there to shy away and not to trust as easily again. If it survived, which it may not have done. Not everyone survives the hurts they bear.”
― Deirdre Sullivan, Savage Her Reply

“They will come and take the things you need to keep you safe and tethered to the world. Oh, it will stop your breath and stop your mouth, but not your heart. Your heart will never stop. It will keep hurting and it will keep breathing.”
― Deirdre Sullivan, Savage Her Reply

“It's hard to know how to protect yourself from those you love.”
― Deirdre Sullivan, Savage Her Reply

“But, even with events that really happened, with every teller, something tends to change. Hair colour, or the food served at a feast. The number of eyes in your head, the number of scars on your back. The right and the wrong of it. We put ourselves into the tales we tell, and to do that, we must remove a part of someone else.”
― Deirdre Sullivan, Savage Her Reply

“People can always find ways to twist customs and traditions to suit their own ends. Those who love power will gather power. And it will never be as warm and trusting as the skin of a sleeping child, but that sort of thing is hard to value when your eyes are fixed upon a crown.”
― Deirdre Sullivan, Savage Her Reply

“Apart from this: I know that I don't know. That there are things we do and do not choose. We are ourselves, and we are also stories people tell. When we faded from our parent's lives, we must have become a different sort of thing to what we were. An honour or a threat. Or something blurry in between the two.”
― Deirdre Sullivan, Savage Her Reply

“I must explain what's left of me to someone. So many things that used to speak and scream now are silent.”
― Deirdre Sullivan, Savage Her Reply

“Stories vary, throat to throat, and heart to foolish heart, but mine belongs to me as much as them. So here I am, I will begin again. I will remember.”
― Deirdre Sullivan, Savage Her Reply