Moïra Fowley-Doyle > Quotes

“Accidents happen. Our bones shatter, our skin splits, our hearts break. We burn, we drown, we stay alive.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, The Accident Season

“Do no harm, but take no shit.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“There are no ghosts; only the dust in the light, our breath and the wind in the quiet, and the feeling that something, or a lot of somethings, are watching us. So maybe there are ghosts after all.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, The Accident Season

“If you’re not careful you can spend your whole life looking for what you’ve lost.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“The tear in my world is getting bigger. Soon it'll blow the whole universe apart.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, The Accident Season

“All witches keep their kisses in everyday objects, so that their hearts won’t break too often.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, The Accident Season

“There's this magical place,' he says with mock solemnity, 'called a library--I don't know if you've heard of it, but they have books, and also newspaper, and back issues of newspapers...”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, The Accident Season

“So let’s raise our glass to the accident season,
To the river beneath us where we sink our souls,
To the bruises and secrets, to the ghosts in the ceiling,
One more drink for the watery road.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle

“Be careful what you wish for;
Not all lost things should be found.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“I think that we all drown, in one way or another.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, The Accident Season

“Runaway Queer Kids Become Victims of Remote Cottage Chainsaw Killer, Surprising Absolutely No One.’ ‘I’m not queer,’ Ida said. ‘Sorry.’ ‘Then chances are you’ll be the only one left alive.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, All the Bad Apples

“If you don't get lost, you will never be found.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“You cast spells every day. Your makeup is glamor magic. Hiding and highlighting. The clothes you pick out to make your legs look longer, your waist smaller. The red you wear for confidence; the black when you’re sad, the blue for clarity. Your favorite bra. Your lucky socks. The way you take an hour on your hair. It’s a ritual. It’s never just about clothes, or makeup, or perfectly messy buns. It’s about magic.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“Some love ignite like forest fires, burn down entire towns before anybody’s noticed.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, All the Bad Apples

“You won’t see us in the photographs. The history books. But the landscape remembers.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, All the Bad Apples

“Every first is a loss.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“We bite back the things we can't say and we cushion every surface for the inevitable moment when they all come fighting out.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, The Accident Season

“The day is still bright, but fading, like it's tired of holding on to the sun and the birdsong and the green smells of the fields just outside of town.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, The Accident Season

“Do you think we carry them with us?’’ I asked. ‘’All the stories of the past?”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, All the Bad Apples

“Nick looks at Alice like she's the only person on the planet he can see in full color.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, The Accident Season

“I am afraid of everybody else's secrets”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, The Accident Season

“I never thought that having my world blown right open would feel so goddamn good.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, The Accident Season

“We were a coven; we were a crowd. We were a forest; we were a three-headed dog.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“Being with you makes me feel like I deserve to be loved. Like I'm less of a monster. Like if you trust me that means I can trust myself.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“There’s great power in sharing stories. In connecting. In speaking truths.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, All the Bad Apples

“They survived on the bare bones of hope.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, All the Bad Apples

“They fight a lot...I used to think love was just like that”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“Mary Ellen was also a woman of logic. But her logic dictated that if all evidence seemed to point to magic, then it would be unwise, logically to discount it.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, All the Bad Apples

“That night, everybody lost something.
Not everybody noticed.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“There were silhouettes of girls holding hands on a couple of the covers, and on one - a shiny, hardback American edition - two girls kissing. I shook my head at the audacity of my sister, at my own embarrassment, at the sheer perfection of both her timing and her gift. From Tipping the Velvet to Cameron Post, an entire library of girls like me.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, All the Bad Apples