Small Angels Quotes

“There was no such thing as a good or a bad place. She was patient with friends who believed in such things, but her own conviction had never wavered. You pass through the world and leave very little behind, and the little you do leave fades with every year. Perhaps people had been happy in this ruin at one time. Perhaps they had suffered. Either way, there was nothing left of them now.”
― Lauren Owen, Small Angels

“At times I was even irritated with Elphine, if you can believe that. I wanted her attention even more than the others’, and yet sometimes I lost patience with her. Her ideas were so unlike most people’s, and her strange kindness and pity could be inconvenient. Sometimes I hated how clearly she made me see myself. I saw her gentleness and realized how little I resembled her.”
― Lauren Owen, Small Angels

“On those occasions I treated them with the same remedies people always used with Mockbeggar, the ones I picked up from Paul: bicarbonate of soda to wash the woods out of their hair. Mint tea to wash it out of their mouths and throats. A good story—something old and familiar—to steady their thoughts.”
― Lauren Owen, Small Angels