Katie French > Quotes

“Their love is so solid, like the beams that hold this house up.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“She says love like its a verb, something you chose to do. In my experience you either love someone or you don’t. Love boils under your skin like fire. Even when you don’t want it to.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“Fear makes the coyote bigger than he is." Right now the coyote’s pretty damn big, but I gotta do what I gotta do. I stick my chest out and strut like a man down the street.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“I like torturing myself. Maybe someday I’ll stop, but not today.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“I sit up and lock him with a hard look. “Sometimes you do what’s right even if you know it won’t do a damn bit of good. Sometimes speaking up is all you have.”
― Katie French, The Benders

“It’s maddening, slow torture watching people long dead live out their life while I can’t do a damn thing to live my own.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“The pure desperation in this place weighs on me heavy.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“Love fades. He can't keep you safe.”
― Katie French, Nessa

“Her cries echo from every quiet corner.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“Kissing him is letting cool water slip over your body on a scorching day. Like the charge that crackles in the air after a lightening storm. Like the eating the last chocolate on earth, the sweetness melting on your tongue.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“Too bad they’re willing to sacrifice human life for progress.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“Our victories are a drop of water in the ocean.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“Trust me, darlin',” he said, “from what I've seen, promises of love fail. Safety: that's a promise that never will.”
― Katie French, Nessa

“It feels as though the fire’s burning hotter each second.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“One more step and you’ll be leakin’. I ain’t afraid of you no more, pa.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“Jesus is the reason." As I drift off I wonder what he’s the reason for.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“When I looked into her face even then, I could tell she was giving me the words I wanted to hear, not the ones she believes. She’s doing that now.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“We bump down the road, toward unknown horrors and all I can do is close my eyes.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“There was a swelling in her chest she couldn't name. Was this what love felt like? How could she know? She'd never felt it. Not even her parents had loved her enough to share something like this with her.”
― Katie French, Nessa

“you were right. Sometimes you have to be reckless for someone you love.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“Make-up. Imagine the thought of trying to entice a man to want you.”
― Katie French, Nessa

“You ready?" His understanding eyes seem to realize what he’s asking. I shake my head.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“Being a woman is terrible. If you aren’t being used for one purpose, someone find another use for you. And what choice is there? The hard, painful fight for freedom. The fight I’ve lost.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“Yelling in a church is probably a sin, but I’m not sure anyone’s up there counting. If they are, I owe them big time.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“The things one could do with science. It was the closest man could come to being God.”
― Katie French, Nessa

“What good did it do to know if you couldn't apply?”
― Katie French, Nessa

“Because," he says smiling, "we’ll be together.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“Yeah, I was giving them trouble. When that guard wanted to rape me, I gave them some trouble.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“Please don’t let the end hurt.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“Ma used to say worry was like pulling at loose threads fearing your life would unravel.”
― Katie French, Nessa