Marie O'Regan > Quotes

“I haven’t lived at all yet. There are books I haven’t read yet.”
― Marie O'Regan, Cursed

“Their eyebrows had the dramatic range of a thousand Kenneth Branaghs”
― Marie O'Regan, Cursed

“Buildings grew taller, more beautiful; she saw towers that seemed to pierce the sky, as thin as needles, and vast”
― Marie O'Regan, Cursed

“she refused him there would be Consequences – and Consequences always meant war, particularly when a man’s pricked honor was involved.”
― Marie O'Regan, Cursed

“I lost a lot of things when I left. Found some too. That’s what happens, I suppose.”
― Marie O'Regan, Cursed

“The first inkling Michael Everett Townsend had that something was wrong was when his wife slapped him hard around the face. She had never slapped his face before. Michael hadn’t been expecting the blow. He was carrying a glass of milk, and it shot out of his hand, spattering them both. The glass was cheap and just bounced on the rug, but he jumped back in shock and stepped on it, cracking the thing into shards, one of which pierced his bare foot. Gasping in pain, he dropped down on the edge of the bed just as the blood began to pour freely from his wounded sole. Instead of the sympathy he expected to receive, however, his wife gave a scream of rage and a mighty shove, and tipped him onto the floor. Then she began looking for a knife.”
― Marie O'Regan, Cursed

“I always wash my hands twice, with antibacterial soap and holy water.”
― Marie O'Regan, Cursed

“hindsight, he supposed. It made every man wise, but wise too late.”
― Marie O'Regan, Phantoms: Haunting Tales from Masters of the Genre