Cathy Marie Buchanan > Quotes

“In those clouds I have seen aberrations-flecks of shimmering silver, orbs of color a shade more intense than their surroundings. I have seen them more than once, and I haves decided they are prayers, mine and everyone else's, too.”
― Cathy Marie Buchanan, The Day the Falls Stood Still

“It is about being born downtrodden and staying that way. Hard work makes no difference, he is saying. My lot, the lots of those around me, were cast the moment we were born into the gutter to parents who never managed to step outside the gutter themselves.”
― Cathy Marie Buchanan, The Painted Girls

“Willfulness, such as yours, is exactly what a girl needs to raise herself up to do something useful with her life.”
― Cathy Marie Buchanan, The Painted Girls

“No social being is less protected than the young Parisian girl—by laws, regulations, and social customs.”
― Cathy Marie Buchanan, The Painted Girls

“She was lost to me, a sister who did not love her sister anymore. Such a stupid thing, striking that match.”
― Cathy Marie Buchanan, The Painted Girls

“Tom said, "You should go. You could use a friend." It was not anything I had not thought myself. Still, hearing it aloud made me feel pitiable, and I had no wish to be, and so I...set off for a luncheon I did not much want to attend." p 233”
― Cathy Marie Buchanan, The Day the Falls Stood Still

“Maman drops to her knees, grasps the hem of Monsieur LeBlanc’s greatcoat. “You cannot turn us out. My daughters, all three good girls, you would put them on the street?”
― Cathy Marie Buchanan, The Painted Girls

“Monsieur”
― Cathy Marie Buchanan, The Painted Girls

“We all matter so very little, not at all after a generation or two. And it is the same for all mankind; not even the greatest of men amount to anything that will survive the forward march of time.”
― Cathy Marie Buchanan, The Day the Falls Stood Still