Dorothy Pierce

“Sisters share a bond unlike any other – thornier, but also tender, full of possibility.”
― Joy McCullough, Blood Water Paint

“I suppose it isn’t fair to fault my father, though he’s the one who used it, moved it, claimed it as his own because of course, he did. That’s just the way of things, I beg and fight and scrape for scraps while he just has to glance upon a thing to make it his.”
― Joy McCullough, Blood Water Paint

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

“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