Laura Purcell

The Silent Companions

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  • Sara Hilalhas quoted4 months ago
    This is what happens to me, Jo. I trust people and they abuse that trust.
  • Sara Hilalhas quoted4 months ago
    why did I trust her; how could I be so foolish; why would she betray me like that?
  • Sara Hilalhas quoted4 months ago
    At least madness had power. It did not make her sound puerile, a girl dreaming of fairies and unicorns.

    Sarah? She underlined the w
  • Sara Hilalhas quoted4 months ago
    This was how she had won before – fighting through the pain. She could do it. She could make her body do anything. She had learnt the hard way.
  • Sara Hilalhas quoted4 months ago
    No torture could be more maddening: to hear and not to see; to be powerless while he howled.
  • Sara Hilalhas quoted4 months ago
    Death, once conceived, was rapacious. It took all with it.
  • Sara Hilalhas quoted4 months ago
    Did evil have wants and needs? Surely not, surely that would make it too human.
  • Sara Hilalhas quoted4 months ago
    what really scares us? It is not things that go bump – or even hiss – in the night. Our fears are much closer than that. We are afraid of the things inside us – be they memories, sickness or sinful urges
  • Sara Hilalhas quoted4 months ago
    Did people know when they were going insane? she wondered. Did they feel the weave of their mind ripping apart? Or was it like passing into a gentle dream-world?
  • Sara Hilalhas quoted4 months ago
    The thunder cracks outside. My fevered imagination hears a cry, rising up from the night. Yet there is nothing, not even a fox outside my window.
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