Gilded Mountain Quotes

“Lost love is still love, isn’t it.”
― Kate Manning, Gilded Mountain

“My new tune, of spite and indifference, drowned out the truth: that I’d mistaken the burn of jealousy for love. The heart wants what it is most denied, a hard lesson.”
― Kate Manning, Gilded Mountain

“Even now I cling to the idea that amour fou, curdled as it was, still had me in its grip. I want to believe this. If you do not act out of some form of love, then who are you in the world?”
― Kate Manning, Gilded Mountain

“I don’t want to get lost.”
“No, no, no, sweet, you won’t. If you get lost, I’ll find you.”
― Kate Manning, Gilded Mountain

“The crush of it. So this is it. Love swallowed by mistake or circumstance. Romance and the moon conspired to make a summer fool of me.”
― Kate Manning, Gilded Mountain

“I pressed down warnings and hopes, so my lungs were tight, and learned then why desire is called a crush. To be crushed. I would die of it.”
― Kate Manning, Gilded Mountain

“Freedom is our strength but comes with responsibility, went my thinking; it had to be tended and fed, or some such lofty idealism in a schoolgirl’s musing.”
― Kate Manning, Gilded Mountain

“In this life, all we have is our savior and the honest word.”
― Kate Manning, Gilded Mountain

“Those who would learn must suffer.”
― Kate Manning, Gilded Mountain

“I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator. —Mary Harris “Mother” Jones”
― Kate Manning, Gilded Mountain