We Have Always Lived in the Castle Quotes

“My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had.”

“I was never sorry when I had thoughts like this; I only wished they would come true.”

“Sometimes I feel I would give anything to have them all back again.”

“She told the police that it was all her fault.”

″‘Don’t you ever want to leave here, Merricat?’ ‘Where could we go?’ I asked her. ‘What place would be better for us than this? Who wants us, outside? The world is full of terrible people.‘”

“On the moon, Uncle Julian would be well and the sun would shine every day.”

“Mary Katherine should have anything she wants, my dear. Our most loved daughter must have anything she likes…”

″‘Oh, Constance,’ I said, ‘we are so happy.’”

“If I had a winged horse, I would fly him to the moon; he would be more comfortable there.”

“I could wish him dead until he died.”

“You had dinner here last night and woke up alive this morning.”

“As a matter of fact, Uncle Julian, my father left nothing.”