“- there were class photos of each year that Cora attended the private all-girls school in Johannesburg, which Cora loathed. It was a prison, she told Freya. It smelled of cabbage and despair.” DespairJohannesburgAll Girls School Book:The Eye of the Beholder Source: The Eye of the Beholder
“When I started I believed that if I spent enough time in the presence of evil, I could absorb it, disperse it, stop the pain by making beauty out of the shattered remains. I was wrong. There was no healing, there's no end to the pain. It just has to be endured.” EvilHealingBeautyEndure Book:The Eye of the Beholder Source: The Eye of the Beholder
“Something that had been stolen from her - but whatever it was- hope maybe, or joy - it had been buried long before it could flower.” JoyHopeBuriedStolen Book:The Eye of the Beholder Source: The Eye of the Beholder
“The messages were intimate, haiku-length compositions. None of them false, none of them true either.” MessagesTrueFalse Book:The Eye of the Beholder Source: The Eye of the Beholder
“It felt as if a huntsman had ripped out her heart and then pressed it back into the cavity, where it would never quite fit again.” HeartPainHuntsman Book:The Eye of the Beholder Source: The Eye of the Beholder
“Freya sensed her mother's damage in the fluid worlds she painted, where beauty and cruelty were hard to distinguish.” MotherBeautyCrueltyDamagePainted Book:The Eye of the Beholder Source: The Eye of the Beholder
“When she got there, she let the ashes adrift through her fingers and settle on the veld. As she emptied the upended urn, it was as if she was emptying out herself.” EmptyAshesUrn Book:The Eye of the Beholder Source: The Eye of the Beholder
“When she got there, she let the ashes drift through her fingers and settle on the veld. As she emptied the upended urn, it was as if she was emptying out herself.” EmptyAshesUrn Book:The Eye of the Beholder Source: The Eye of the Beholder
“Those of us who survive live on as dark stars,' murmured Cora, 'We are invisible, but we collapse the light.” LightStarsInvisibleSurvive Book:The Eye of the Beholder Source: The Eye of the Beholder