Kimberly Brock > Quotes

“There was no doubt even for a child as young as I'd been, that she'd raised his ghost. I knew then, the only thing that really ever haunts a person is regret.”
― Kimberly Brock

“Before you knew it, a wonder could mix with the plain old earth beneath your feet until you could no longer tell the difference at all.”
― Kimberly Brock

“Besides you can't steal cake. Nobody owns cake. If you don't have sense to know cake's meant to be eaten up, you ought not be making one.”
― Kimberly Brock

“When you leave a stone like this, even for a person you never knew, you’re asking God to add this name to His sling, so they’ll count. They’ll never be forgotten. And He will watch over this soul, always.”
― Kimberly Brock, The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare

“...all stories were ghost stories, an exchange of spirit between the world and the human heart that rode on an inhale and an exhale.”
― Kimberly Brock, The Fabled Earth

“Women were held together by unseen connections that made the world believe they were walking wonders.”
― Kimberly Brock, The Fabled Earth

“The way I see it,” she said, “God is not like a person or even a thing, really. People go around making God into whatever they want or need. But when you get down to it, I believe what my Granny Byrne said. God is love and love is about changing, becoming something more.”
― Kimberly Brock, The River Witch

“Fires set stories free on the world. That's what stories like best. And every one of us has a library we're carrying around right inside us.”
― Kimberly Brock, The Fabled Earth

“I say, ‘Ivy honey, this is not the end of the world. It’s just your little time on Earth. And it’s hardly a blink.’” The”
― Kimberly Brock, The River Witch

“She'd believed herself to be special, an exception, capable of turning a curse to a blessing. Only now could she see that was glory's real power, that seduction. She'd never known such self-loathing.”
― Kimberly Brock, The Fabled Earth

“Because it’s what I know to do. Because I want to get better and I figure if I start with the outside, maybe I’ll figure out how to fix the inside.”
― Kimberly Brock, The River Witch

“People told their secrets, one way or another, and not just with their words.”
― Kimberly Brock, The River Witch