The Radical Element Quotes

“...I had believed she believed it, and I believed that someday I might could, too, when I were grown enough, but now, kneeling on the hard floors of the boardinghouse with Eliza praying for all of us, I can't feel it. I feel propped up -- on Mam's faith, on Eliza's, on all the women in this room. But all I feel is hollowed out and empty, like someone's scraped their fingernails along the inside of my heart.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Radical Element

“But we are wolves, too. We are tearing up our own pack.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Radical Element

“And at the end of life, I don't know what's going to turn out to be the true thing, or which church will be the right one. But I don't think it really matters."
"Then what does?" I ask.
"Finding things that give you hope, and make you want to do good things for others.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Radical Element