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“There would be no happy ending. Happy endings only ever existed in books and plays. In theatrics set on the stage. Illusions meant to delight and distract from life and its cold truths.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Genesis

“Reckon that’s why people believe in God. Somethin’ to unify us all amidst this fuckin’ chaos down here.” “That’s not why people believe in God.” Abby shook her head and looked at Joey. “But it should be.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Genesis

“thrusting and grinding into Joey’s mouth. Her mouth. There wasn’t a thing filthier, there wasn’t a thing more miraculous.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Genesis

“You’re wrong, you know. About happy stories being the best.” Abby shook her head, questioning. “The best stories are the ones where you can’t tell how it’s going to end.” Jack grinned. “Where everything seems hopeless, right up until the last possible moment.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Genesis

“So..." Abby sighed because here it was, her olive branch, "do you kidnap people often?” A moment passed. “You’re the first.” “Really?” “’S that make you feel special?” Abby thought about it. “Maybe a little, actually.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Genesis

“How could the same men who stood in awe, claiming their God’s world was a perfect creation—how could those same men then take delight in destroying it?”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Genesis

“The best stories are the ones where you can’t tell how it’s going to end.” Jack grinned. “Where everything seems hopeless, right up until the last possible moment.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Genesis

“Of all the idiotic ideas,” Abby said, swiping her hand across her cheek and checking it for blood, “swarming in all the faulty brains…why the fuck did my father hire a violently beautiful woman to kidnap me?”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Genesis

“Motherfuck it all I’m a bloody thundercunt of a knobfaced fool.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Genesis

“Abby stared, seething. She’d never been angrier. She hated her. Hated her for dangling a life in front of her that was freedom and camaraderie and joy and everything Abby had ever wanted, only to snatch it away. She already hated her for bringing her back to Silas. How could she? When she knew the life she’d be damning her to?”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Genesis

“Abby smirked again. Joey was nervous. Nervous because of her, no less, and Abby couldn’t remember a time she’d been more thrilled.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Genesis

“Joey walked in, eyeing the hunk of meat she was carrying at the end of a skewer. “Ben, reckon this needs to roast a bit longer? Can’t tell if it’s,” she spotted Abby, “fuck.” She blinked, coming back to herself. “Sorry, no—fuck, that’s not what—sorry. I’m sorry.” Then she turned and walked back out the door, taking the skewer with her.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Genesis

“God isn’t the enemy, sweet one,” she said softly.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Genesis

“You give me undue credit. If you’ve been made a fool, you arrived there on your own merit.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Genesis

“That the world wasn’t as simple as black and white and good and evil and outlaws and housewives, and perhaps it was possible to be kidnapped and rescued at the same exact time.”
― Ally North

“I’m sorry they won’t know you. It’s a loss they’ll never even know to grieve.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Exodus: Bloom Town, Book 2

“The boy’s rage, so visceral not a moment prior, had all at once given way to a stony blank stare, the angry lines of his brow softening from furious to thoughtful—the sort of thoughtfulness that accompanies a cluttered mind. A mind busy with sweeping unwanted thoughts into dark corners. Abby knew that look. She’d seen students with that look. She’d seen that look in the mirror.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Genesis

“Suit yourself,” the woman said, putting the vest back on. “We’re ridin’ back together, figured you’d prefer to be clothed, but if I have to spend the ride with you pressed against me, half naked,” she smirked down at the button she was working on, “can’t say it’ll be a hardship.” Abby’s eyes shot to”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Genesis

“Are you sure it isn’t too much?” Abby asked, pausing at the top of the stairs, the hustle and bustle of the others and their guests busy in the saloon below. “I suppose that depends,” Olive looked at her with a little shrug, “if it bothers you when Joey stares then perhaps you should go and change.” And with that she clattered down the stairs, leaving Abby to stare after her, warmth creeping into her now overly-rouged cheeks.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Genesis

“Alright?” Joey asked, and Abby realized she’d been caught staring down at her own chest, adjusting the fabric, trying in vain to cover more of herself. “Oh—fine,” she laughed, “it’s just. This dress. It would’ve turned some heads in Stillwater.” And led to a public shaming by the entire congregation. Joey opened the door, tongue poking in her cheek. “It’s turnin’ heads here.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Genesis

“Maybe shame needed your permission to enter in. Maybe it was a manmade construct, like time.”
― Ally North

“People have an aggravatin' habit of confusing bad with different. Coyotes might sound sad to our ear but that's just because we don't speak coyote.”
― Ally North

“Was it?” Her voice was low. “Was God’s way better?” Abby couldn’t stop a laugh from escaping. “I hope not. I’ve nothing to compare it to, but…God, I hope that’s not it.” “It’s not unnatural, you know. Just uncommon. Mostly because of twats like your husband puttin’ words in God’s mouth.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Genesis

“Abby thought about it. “I don’t know. But I know I don’t believe in manifest destiny. That God prefers one kind of person over another.” She took another swig. “The church was cruel to you,” Esther said. It wasn’t a question. Abby took another sip. “God’s word compelled their cruelty.” Esther stopped her. Cradled her face the same way she’d done in the saloon. “If the words were used to hurt you,” she said softly, “then they didn’t come from Him.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Genesis

“The woman suddenly shifted, grabbing Abby’s hands and pinning them over her head, anchoring her in place with her hips and staring down at her. Abby stared back, and a moment later the woman shifted again—the slightest movement—but suddenly they were aligned in a way that had heat sparking in Abby’s core, and before she could stop herself, she let out an airy breath. A small thing, really. But not small enough to go unnoticed. The woman looked surprised at first, and then she narrowed her eyes. Abby watched, mortified, as it all played out on the woman’s face—recognition, understanding, shock. And then that slow curl of a half-smile, like she was thrilled at what she’d just discovered.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Genesis

“She wasn't opposed to hunting--meat was a necessity when the crops dwindled at summer's end-but it was the hunters' glee she couldn't reconcile. It made no sense. How could the same men who stood in awe, claiming their God's world was a perfect creation-how could those same men then take delight in destroying it? Abby hadn't gone to the feast. She didn't want to see that poor animal, cursed by its own beauty, butchered and plated for consumption by small men made angry when beautiful things dared to exist outside of their possession.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Genesis