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Signs for Lost Children QUOTES

Signs for Lost Children QUOTES

1 " ...what of those whose home situations are maddening, so maddening that a lunatic asylum appears by comparison a sane and healthful place? It is a possibility that does not seem to have occurred to Browne: it is not that some people's minds are so fragile that they require the permanent protection of an institution but that some people's homes are crazier than institutions for the mad. Some households do not tolerate sanity. "

― Sarah Moss , Signs for Lost Children

2 " Is it enough for a life, to pass examinations, to win a prize? To assist in the saving of a few lives, and perhaps in the loss of others? To discover kindness, to discover that kindness is the only thing that matters. A late discovery, but then she grew up in a house without it. "

― Sarah Moss , Signs for Lost Children

3 " But if it was like that for you, if you were watchful and hesitant from first waking until sleep, then you know how it is to be a woman and especially to be a woman entering a profession. We are always strangers in a strange land. I think Ally is like that all the time, hunted and cunning, because she has had no safe place, no home. She is now and has always been afraid of her mother. "

― Sarah Moss , Signs for Lost Children

4 " Here, then, and now: homecoming. The lightening of her very bones, the slowing of her dancing heart as the air of this place fills her lungs and her blood. The wind off the sea, the watery colours of a summer night in the far west where nightfall is postponed almost until morning. "

― Sarah Moss , Signs for Lost Children