Laura Bickle > Quotes

“Men are essentially useless for the difficult things in life. For births and deaths, one clearheaded woman is more useful than a half-dozen men.”
― Laura Bickle, The Hallowed Ones

“I was a hypocrite. When the roof came down, it was going to fall on me first.”
― Laura Bickle, The Hallowed Ones

“For me, that was love. Tangible. Love was what was in front of me, not a distant fantasy.”
― Laura Bickle, The Hallowed Ones

“I wanted the syrupy taste of this small rebellion. And this stupid machine was denying that bit of freedom to me . . . just like everyone else.”
― Laura Bickle, The Hallowed Ones

“What did you come for?" he murmured.
"For you.”
― Laura Bickle, The Hallowed Ones

“God smiles on those who quietly do his dirty work, my girl.”
― Laura Bickle, The Hallowed Ones

“His eyes widened. "You didn't go back to town, did you?"
"No. I went to church."
"Ah, well. That explains it," he blurted. "I mean...well...Two hours of sermons is enough to dim anyone's sparkle.”
― Laura Bickle, The Hallowed Ones

“You have done well, Katie,” Frau Gerlach said. “You would make a fine midwife someday, if you ever wished to learn.”
I cast my eyes down, exhausted and shy and afraid and proud all at once. “All I have managed so far is to be a midwife to the puppies.”
She reached out to pat my cheek with a bloody hand. “God smiles on those who quietly do his dirty work, my girl.”
― Laura Bickle, The Hallowed Ones

“There was a difference, I had decided, between knowing and believing. And I wanted both.”
― Laura Bickle

“I ran my fingers over the black ink. "They're holy to you."
Alex flexed his fingers. "They are now.”
― Laura Bickle, The Hallowed Ones

“God cannot be with everyone. Not everyone is right.”
― Laura Bickle, The Hallowed Ones

“That night I lay in bed and stared out the window. Night and I were old friends.”
― Laura Bickle, The Hallowed Ones

“I wasn't threatened by fantasy.”
― Laura Bickle, The Hallowed Ones

“I slipped outside...and into the realm of the ravens.”
― Laura Bickle, The Hallowed Ones

“I could barely breathe as I fled down the steps, like something was stuck in my throat. I couldn't tell what flavor it was; it tasted salty like tears, but it was sharp as broken glass.”
― Laura Bickle, The Hallowed Ones

“I think I’d rather be branded than submit to some of the things that you have to.” He said this without spite, just a soft statement of fact. “I’m not strong enough to do that.”
― Laura Bickle, The Hallowed Ones

“I was afraid to be Outside alone, without Elijah. But, no matter what, I would have to get used to his absence. I would have to prove to him and to myself that I could.”
― Laura Bickle, The Hallowed Ones

“Maybe now that Elijah was feeling well enough to be interfering in my business, he'd also be well enough to look after his own chores.”
― Laura Bickle, The Hallowed Ones

“People scared Petra—they were volatile, unpredictable. But the natural world could always be explained. It behaved according to established laws that didn’t change. Petra could play by those rules.”
― Laura Bickle, Dark Alchemy

“There is only one way to a man's heart. Through gentleness. Not by getting angry or jealous.”
― Laura Bickle, The Hallowed Ones

“I began to murmur the Lord's Prayer in thanks.
"Shit," Mrs. Parsall said.”
― Laura Bickle, The Hallowed Ones

“This could, quite possibly, be the dumbest thing she’d ever done: pursuing a poisonous basilisk into a cave during an earthquake in the company of a bunch of dead guys, armed with a potato cannon and a six-pack of lye. Never mind her soggy pink fiberglass armor. This was going to be an epic way to die. The”
― Laura Bickle, Mercury Retrograde

“That is my mom. The lady who made Christmas cookies every year and never figured out how to drive a stick shift. My mom is a Jedi.”
― Laura Bickle, Pawned

“Shoulders slumped in defeat, I turned to walk away. The drugstore had caved under the force of my criminal will, but the Coke machine was virtuous. Inviolate.”
― Laura Bickle, The Hallowed Ones

“The men in black walked back across the field, back to their dry homes, like crows returning to the nest. I trailed behind them, a confused and drenched brown sparrow behind the flock.”
― Laura Bickle, The Hallowed Ones

“Maybe those campers were into something strange,” Maria mused. “Did you see any Ouija boards or salt circles? Any summoning Cthulhu with a pop-up gate to hell? I hear the Dark Lord loves toasted marshmallows.”
― Laura Bickle, Mercury Retrograde

“Once upon a time when his chances of survival were greater than a mosquito in a bat cave. Dallas”
― Laura Bickle, Mercury Retrograde

“Cellular signals and wires tracked people through ephemeral data and invisible networks in an ever-shrinking world. Was it still possible to disappear in this day and age?”
― Laura Bickle, Nine of Stars

“Flowers, in my experience, tended to taste bitter,”
― Laura Bickle, The Hallowed Ones

“My ancestors’ spellbooks said that when a witch walks in her lover’s dreams, that he was fated to be hers.”
― Laura Bickle, Shifting Summer