Helen Rena > Quotes

“But there are plenty of laws nobody has ever broken. Like gravity, for example. Or morality. Or the law that everyone poops now and then. And besides, it’s insane to build your life on hopes of being an exception to some rule.”
― Helen Rena, The Coldest Heart

“The black market was closing. The last sellers and buyers clustered behind an out-of-business toy store in Brooklyn, where the road smelled of trash and the subway trains that ran high above the street rattled the loudest. There were no children for sale at this hour. The last and least important bits of the day’s tidings were hastily sold.”
― Helen Rena, The Coldest Heart

“And then the floor careened under my feet, but not because I couldn’t stand or anything like that. No it was because Ii was laughing–killing one’s enemies was so much fun.”
― Helen Rena, The Coldest Heart