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Martha Peake: A Novel of the Revolution QUOTES

Martha Peake: A Novel of the Revolution QUOTES

1 " ... he stripped his clothes off and flung himself into a heavy sea, for the sheer pleasure of getting out safe again. "

― Patrick McGrath , Martha Peake: A Novel of the Revolution

2 " ... Harry Peake's spine disturbed the people's confidence in the proper shape and form of things, a confidence they had not known they possessed, it was stitched so deep in their sense of the order of the world. "

― Patrick McGrath , Martha Peake: A Novel of the Revolution

3 " Harry's voice had matured like old port wine, it was deep and rich and liquid. "

― Patrick McGrath , Martha Peake: A Novel of the Revolution

4 " He wished only to live as a free man upon the fruits of his labor, and grow old in the natural rhythms of the earth; instead of which he was cursed, so he felt, always to be an object of disgust, or horror, which is only disgust with a portion of fear superadded- always to be in the eyes of the world a monster. "

― Patrick McGrath , Martha Peake: A Novel of the Revolution