"The Story of Lucy Gault" Quotes
"The Story of Lucy Gault" follows the poignant journey of a young Irish girl coping with loss, guilt, and the long shadows of history in a changing 20th-century Ireland.
fiction | 240 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
She had long ago lost her fear of the dark.
She was afraid of the world. She had imagined it was only a matter of time before it came and snatched her away.
She was powerless to stop them; to tell them that she was not the person they thought she was.
The past was not something to be forgotten; it was something to be lived with, a thing of sorrow and beauty and joy and pain.
She'd always thought that love and despair could not coexist, but now she knew that they could.
She had lost her way, and she was not sure how to find it again.
The sea was a comfort to her, its sounds and smells and the rhythm of its tides.
She realized that she had been living in a world of her own making, a world that was not real.
The silence was comforting; it was a balm to her soul.
She had once thought that loneliness was the worst thing in the world. Now she knew that there were worse things.
