Quotes by : Frances Hardinge

Zeal was like gas, most dangerous when you could not see it. The wrong spark could light it at any time.....

She had needed kindness before, and had received none. Now it was too late, and she did not know what....

Myrtle shook her head. "I told myself that I was lucky," she said. "Your father never struck me, never....

So what do you want?" asked Myrtle."I want to help evolution."Evolution did not fill Faith with the same....

She felt utterly crushed and betrayed. Science had betrayed her. She had always believed deep down that....

It could be kindness. Faith felt hollow at the thought. She had needed kindness before, and has received....

And perhaps some other later girl, leafing through her father's library, would come across a footnote....

Silence itself could be used as deftly and cruelly as a kire

For a tiny instant Faith wondered whether it would benefit the doctor's investigation if he experienced....

There were kind lies. You still look beautiful. I love you. I forgive you.There were frightened lies.....