“I think of my mother, who has been gone longer. I think about how being without her feels like being without my skin. You might only notice it when you touch something. But you're always touching something.”
― The Night We Lost Him
― The Night We Lost Him
“Her father might change," Mrs.
Shoplaw said, "but I doubt it. Young women and young men grow up, but old women and old men just grow older and surer they've got the right on their side.
Especially if they know scripture.”
― Joyland
Shoplaw said, "but I doubt it. Young women and young men grow up, but old women and old men just grow older and surer they've got the right on their side.
Especially if they know scripture.”
― Joyland
“Fate is just another invention to trick us into complacency. Inaction. If one assumes that they cannot change their circumstances, they won't try. When you think about it, really, there's a myriad of ways we're conditioned to passivity. Women, especially. Of course, I realized all of this a long, long time ago. It saved me. It could have just as easily drowned me.”
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“Witches see the truth plainly, even if their husbands are full of nonsense.”
― Shadow of Night
― Shadow of Night
“That's how things look from the future. To people in the valley (the dark valley) of the present, they look different.”
― 11/22/63
― 11/22/63
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