Mary Toft Or The Rabbit Queen Quotes

“But also: nightmares. The most delicious nightmares, the kind that one has only after the wall between the mundane and the magical is breached directly before one's eyes; nightmares that make you smile as you shiver in your sleep.”
― Dexter Palmer, Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen

“. . . but what they were all waiting for, none could say; nor could one say whether they were all waiting for the same thing, or whether each was waiting for something entirely different.”
― Dexter Palmer, Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen

“. . . calamity comes for every one of us, and assumes the shape that will be sure to hurt us most.”
― Dexter Palmer, Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen

“One ought to pretend that there is still hope, in this late season, for astonishment.”
― Dexter Palmer, Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen