Aulisyn Quotes

“Despite her mother’s prayers and penances, Eliza remains a stubborn dropped stitch in the fabric of the community.”
― Erzsebet Carmean, Aulisyn A Gothic Sci-Fi Novel

“Eliza focuses on Christ’s expression, appalling in a serenity as disproportionate to the scene as the weeping Marys. Where is your anger? Eliza questions. Sunday by Sunday she asks and receives no answer. I am angry, I am furious! She knows the impropriety of these feelings; she knows Christ suffers for her immortal soul. Can I not be both grateful for the miracle and angry at the injustice? Who can look at Christ’s face, his jutting ribs, the discoloration of rot rising on the skin of his dying feet, his dying hands – who can look upon this man and lack fury?”
― Erzsebet Carmean, Aulisyn A Gothic Sci-Fi Novel

“I raise my forlorn heart, Eliza thinks, to know the bounty of food at Bellumfort and understand the long months of winter grief on the demesne are preventable.”
― Erzsebet Carmean, Aulisyn A Gothic Sci-Fi Novel

“Oh, curses on my voice, tripping out before my mind can call halt to the words.”
― Erzsebet Carmean, Aulisyn A Gothic Sci-Fi Novel

“Eliza knows there is a deep pit in the middle of the floor, darker and more binding than the cell. Sciapods are in there, giggling beneath their monstrous feet. They want to stomp me to a paste and spread me on ash cakes, she thinks.”
― Erzsebet Carmean, Aulisyn A Gothic Sci-Fi Novel

“Christ, that my inglorious downfall is wrought by an illiterate teenage girl!”
― Erzsebet Carmean, Aulisyn A Gothic Sci-Fi Novel

“Five generations a murderer, Lothar Teryan, five generations of dying children, starved mothers, unending laments. There is nought bad enough for you!”
― Erzsebet Carmean, Aulisyn A Gothic Sci-Fi Novel

“Woolens to wash await Eliza, while Eliza awaits her next thought, a thought which pleases her by being three trees taunting, two, two tombs tattling, one for her and one for me, walking harvest-wise across the bridge.”
― Erzsebet Carmean, Aulisyn A Gothic Sci-Fi Novel