Quotes from Candas Jane Dorsey

I suppose that every wanderer started in a garden somewhere. So few of us are born into motion.

Never mind,' says the old woman. 'It won't hurt for long. You'll go crazy, or they'll hang you. Easy as that, really.

Someday…I will know that a new world has come into being, the world we dream could set us all free of tyranny, lies, injustice, prejudice, fear and sorrow. "When truth triumphs over all secrecy, we will all sail the silver ships, we will all know the joyful beauty of the Fjord of Tears in autumn, we will choose our families and loves and friends and no evil but only natural process will sunder us.

It is only for a while. I will receive you when you die, with special love.' "'That won't do me any good.' Essa struggles through sobs, finds speech, bends it until she can keep hold of it. 'It won't be a little while for me. It'll be my life. And when you receive me, I'll be dead.

To be the queen of an ancient kingdom, even the abdicated queen, apparently counts for nothing in the universal scheme of things.

Humans are so strange. Now I have seen you. It is odd. You do not look any different. Yet I know you must be. Dying changes a person.

my soul is sore I leave my mountain home walk the long roads to the sea no-one remembers me except the dead no-one remembers the dead… no-one remembers the dead except the dead no-one remembers me walk the long roads to the sea I leave my mountain home my soul is sore

At the sound, XX rolls over and looks around with feral, instantly-alert eyes. He will, she imagines, never lose that habit of the palace slave.