Ally North > Quotes

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

“Because everyone leaves in the end. Everyone. Sooner you accept that you’re on this wreck of a planet alone the sooner you can get on with makin’ the best of it.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Genesis

“4. I dream about you every goddamn night. Every time I even close my eyes. But my dreams blur the edges and I’m driving myself mad thinking that one day that’s all I’ll have left of you. Blurred edges in my dreams.   5. I want you to know that I”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Exodus

“The sun may be a million miles away, but still it lights the moon.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Exodus

“I listened to you, now you listen to me,” she said, her tone gentle, but there was an undercurrent there—something dangerous just beneath. “I’ve changed. I’m better than I was because I wanted to be better for the children. For Lewis. For you. I fucked up, I shouldn’t have left you, I shouldn’t have—” she gestured, grimacing, “the chloroform. Was a poor choice.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Exodus

“For anyone who has suffered at the hands of small-minded people, and for all those still battling the lingering ghosts of religious trauma.   ”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Genesis

“Maybe shame needed your permission to enter in. Maybe it was a manmade construct”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Genesis

“How dare they. How dare they use God to justify such blatant evil.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Genesis

“Remember what you told me? About anger and happiness and how you get to choose?” He nodded, slow and careful. “Family is like that too. When you’re old enough, you get to choose.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Exodus

“don’t kill him.” She couldn’t explain it, couldn’t understand it herself, but some hidden, primal part of her had flared to life in that instant. He was a monster. A madman. She hated him. And yet, she didn’t want to see him slain.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Exodus

“Reverend Dawson stopped him. “We’re prepared to pay you good money. We need your help to right this wrong.” “You’ve got the Lord on your side!” Frex bellowed jovially. “What the hell do ya’ll need me for?” Silas shook his head. “Because we don’t know what to do about JT London." Frex smiled. “Why not just pray for her?” ”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Genesis

“You listen to me and you listen well,” Esther said, stretching out to hold Abby’s hand. “Happiness and love are not finite goods to be bartered and rationed. They expand upon each other; they grow and touch others and shed light into dark corners. You should want happiness all the more for the sorry state of the world so that you can share it.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Exodus

“When we were leaving Wry, when I was ill…he said I hope you die. So he thinks it’s his fault.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Exodus

“When you’re the preacher’s only child—only daughter, no less, it’s um. It’s hard? The entire town is always watching you. When you’re small you feel important because everyone knows who you are, everyone wants to be your friend.” Why was she telling Joey all this? “But when you get older, it’s as if those same people who adored you are just waiting for you to slip up. They seek gossip the way I imagine other people seek enlightenment or happiness. They crave it, just to distract themselves from how unremarkable their own lives are.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Genesis

“The circle of rope that had been tied around his waist dangled like a stretched noose. He’d slipped out of it.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Exodus

“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

“You know how you reach a certain age and you realize your parents are just people? Like, just as flawed and fucked up as we are?”
― Ally North, The Wilds & The Weeds

“She was attached to a kite; a brilliant soaring thing, bright and colorful. Without it, she’d just be Abby.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Exodus

“She wasn’t ready to just be Abby. She wasn’t sure it would be enough.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Exodus

“The words were the moon, filling the shore and draining the tide in equal measure.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Genesis

“It is fitting then, your name. For one who falls only to rise again.” “Dabai?” Abby tried it again, feeling the weight of it on her tongue. “What does it mean?” “Sun,”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Exodus

“But isn’t that what awaits us all”
― Ally North, The Wilds & The Weeds

“What I find interesting is that you claim your parents’ deaths are of little consequence, yet growing up, your favorite book was about immortality. About a family who is physically incapable of dying.”
― Ally North, The Wilds & The Weeds

“And it wasn’t that Summer was afraid of the shattering—actually, the pull to break free was becoming increasingly hard to ignore—but what came after, that was what gave Summer pause. When the marble was rubble at her feet, what could possibly be left standing, when the façade was all she’d ever known?”
― Ally North, The Wilds & The Weeds

“A thousand pretty words were strung like dewdrops on a spider strand between them, glistening and unsaid and doomed to disappear with the dawn.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Genesis

“Abby smiled. Olive had been the one to suddenly start calling them Mum and Mama one morning at breakfast. Simple as that—she’d just decided, unprompted, those were their names now.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Exodus

“Born with wings, flying at last.”
― Ally North, The Wilds & The Weeds

“You’re the best person I’ve ever known, and it’s been a fuckin’ wonder gettin’ to know you. A privilege. And in another lifetime,” she leaned in, kissing Abby softly, one last time, “I’d love you with every piece of me left.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Exodus

“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

“Joey had just…she’d shot him. Right there in front of her.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Exodus