Dorothy Pierce

“Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Piazzas, churches named for a teenager who gave life to the Christ. Sculptures, paintings, frescoes devoted to her holiness. But the only thing about her we remember, she was a virgin.”
― Joy McCullough, Blood Water Paint

“One Step...and then the next gets you where you're going."
- Sister Creep”
― Robert R. McCammon, Swan Song

“Any man who breathes has more power than a woman in her world – and our world too.”
― Joy McCullough, Blood Water Paint