Burntcoat Quotes

“I'm the wood in the fire. I've experienced, altered in nature. I am burnt, damaged, more resilient. A life is a bead of water on the black surface, so frail, so strong, its world incredibly held.”
― Sarah Hall, Burntcoat

“There's blindness to new lovers. They exist in the rare atmosphere of their own colony, trusting by sense and feel, creatures consuming each other, building shelters with their hopes. Other worlds cease. I know I felt something as it began, an understanding, foreboding, ordinance, even. Love is never the oldest story. It grows in the rich darkness.”
― Sarah Hall, Burntcoat

“I have this feeling - of being unplugged and too far from the socket and what remains is a red warning bar.”
― Sarah Hall, Burntcoat

“I did not contact my father. He had another family; he was a stranger. I'd been raised, capably and neglectfully, by a borrowed woman and her shadow. I lay on Naomi's bed in the empty cottage, comforted by the hollow in her pillow, my face soaked. It was the beginning of grief, for every version of her.”
― Sarah Hall, Burntcoat

“There is no eye faster than fate. Frame by frame we are all caught.”
― Sarah Hall, Burntcoat

“Such shock is both disabling and enlivening; everything before was a mistake. We will do it differently; we'll repent. Consume less, conserve more, make sense of our punishment. It's been said the virus reached levels of superiority other pathogens never have. Like the vastation of ice ages, and condensed gene pools, language, blood and milk, it will evolve us. Of course, the old ways return. Our substance is the same, even with improving agents. We are our worst tendencies. We remain in our cast.”
― Sarah Hall, Burntcoat