Quotes from Jane Urquhart

The women of this family leaned towards extremes.

I had come to the very edge of a moment, the moment when it might have been possible to remove the cloak of fear that had protected me all those years. But after all was said and done, the flesh beneath was too white and weak to be exposed. Is there really any one among you who in the face of such grief would not panic at the approach of happiness?

Someday, Joseph said to his granddaughter, someday something will happen and you will want to go back to the carving. You won't be able to prevent yourself; that's just the way it is. The world always somehow takes us back to the chisel. Something happens and we have to respond.

There is no argument with fog. In it's own vague stubbornness, it wields more power than wind, rain, snow, even ice.

Kenneth's shadow is a thin ghost on the quay. But there are thousands and thousands of miles inside him.