Billy Coffey > Quotes

“Some pasts exist as a fog that rolls in and out of the present, formed not by air that condenses into mist but memories that condense into tiny doors that open to forgotten moments. Maybe you glance at a stranger on a crowded street who reminds you of a childhood friend or hear a song that was popular the first summer you fell in love, and in the space of that single beat of time you are flung backward to a who or when long past. And yet it is only for that one beat. Those tiny doors never remain open for long for most of us. They ensure our former times are kept as relics, and the dust upon them is wiped clean only occasionally”
― Billy Coffey, The Devil Walks in Mattingly

“All darkness needs to spread is for a bunch of people to stand around and do nothing. You know that.”
― Billy Coffey, The Curse of Crow Hollow

“If you're hungry enough...even poison tastes good.”
― Billy Coffey, When Mockingbirds Sing

“Light cannot dwell with darkness,”
― Billy Coffey, There Will Be Stars: A Novel

“Life is made more beautiful by the unknown. Somehow knowing that we couldn’t ever know it all was comforting.”
― Billy Coffey, Snow Day: A Novel

“Faith comes easy when you ain’t got nothin’ left. I know you don’t understand that. I hope you never got to.”
― Billy Coffey, A Billy Coffey Collection: When Mockingbirds Sing, The Devil Walks in Mattingly, In the Heart of the Dark Woods

“God doesn’t change, you deepen.”
― Billy Coffey, There Will Be Stars: A Novel

“Faith doesn’t mean checking your brain at the door of every church or throwing all you think you know out some stained-glass window. It means trusting. I have to trust now. It’s all I have.”
― Billy Coffey, There Will Be Stars: A Novel

“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be. —C. S. LEWIS”
― Billy Coffey, In the Heart of the Dark Wood: A Novel

“...just because a girl could kick a ball and chuck a rock didn't mean she'd grow up to be pretty and make a good supper.”
― Billy Coffey, When Mockingbirds Sing

“There’s a bit of magic in everything And then some loss to even things out. —LOU REED”
― Billy Coffey, When Mockingbirds Sing

“Jack knew what had come after.”
― Billy Coffey, When Mockingbirds Sing

“I've learnt a lot from living the same day over and over. I know what works and what doesn't, all my truths and lies. I never figured out how to live until I died, Bobby, and the one thing I know is never listen to your heart, talk to it.”
― Billy Coffey, There Will Be Stars

“There is a kind of bravery born from understanding that what lies in front of you is merely the end result of every choice you've ever made and there is nothing left but to follow that path”
― Billy Coffey, In the Heart of the Dark Wood

“The world does not shrink when you have children, it expands, and with it comes a beauty you never knew was there and monsters you never knew existed.”
― Billy Coffey, In the Heart of the Dark Wood: A Novel