Archer Sullivan > Quotes

“No woman stays with a man who is bad every moment of every single day. They always stay for the good moments that happen in between. They bask in the shimmer of dappled sunshine that appears between the storms. They weather everything else.”
― Archer Sullivan, The Witch's Orchard

“All of us must do something with the formative pain of our early years.”
― Archer Sullivan

“upright and ready in that forlorn way that empty cowboy boots always seem to have.”
― Archer Sullivan, Brimstone Hollow

“It happens,” She says. I don’t know what, precisely, “It,” whatever “it” is, is a thing that women know of. A thing we all carry. A decision. A gift. A burden. A chance. A mistake. A choice.”
― Archer Sullivan, The Witch's Orchard