Calla Tate > Quotes

“But fire is not always ruin. Sometimes it clears what is rotten. Sometimes it warms.”
― Calla Tate, The Devil's Daughters

“Evil is always easier to forgive than a woman who makes you mind.”
― Calla Tate, The Devil's Daughters

“Family sometimes meant trusting the shape of a storm before seeing the lightning.”
― Calla Tate, The Devil's Daughters

“I swallowed hard, eyes on the ridge ahead. "Funny thing about control," I said, voice small. "I've spent my whole life being the one who had it, because someone had to. Tom burns too hot. Ennis fights too hard. That left me - the middle one, the steady one. I don't shout, I don't cry, I don't let it break me. Somebody's got to be the smart one when everything else goes to hell.”
― Calla Tate, The Devil's Daughters

“Do it in steps," he said. "Don't try to hang them all at once. Take their hands. Then their herds. Then their coin. Then their name. Don't be loud. Be inevitable."
He folded his hands and watched. "And when the snake starts to hiss," he finished, flat as packed dirt, " when it dares to strike. You cut its fucking head off.”
― Calla Tate, The Devil's Daughters