Dare to Be Wild Quotes

“Louis’s heart clenched. He’d never been sick a day in his life before, but the influenza had made him as weak and wretched as a starved kitten himself. He’d been barely conscious for the first few days and when he was well enough to realise how ill Aggie was he’d been beside himself. He’d very much feared he would lose her, and the pain of that loss had staggered him.”
― Emma V. Leech, Dare to Be Wild

“He had to get away. If he was to be ignored, then at least let it be at a distance where he felt less like a child with his nose pressed to the glass of a sweet shop window. He was used to absence, used to being alone. That he could deal with.”
― Emma V. Leech, Dare to Be Wild

“He wanted the dream of her here with him, wanting to be with him. If he couldn’t have that he didn’t want any part of it, for he knew now it had the power to destroy him.”
― Emma V. Leech, Dare to Be Wild

“Never knowing what it was to be loved and belong somewhere was one thing, but having a taste of it before it was taken away again was quite another.”
― Emma V. Leech, Dare to Be Wild