Rachel Kennedy > Rachel's Quotes

“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Be wary the red, Be wary the blade. Be wary the pain, for a price will be paid.”
― Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window

“quotient.”
― Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window

“Not on your mouth, Elspeth.”
― Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window

“Ravyn’s hands were bleeding.”
― Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window

“To tell a story is in some part to tell a lie, isn’t it?”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth

“His teeth were white, straight—except the front bottom three, which were crowded. A pallid row of disorganized soldiers. Were he to bite me, I imagined the indent would be as unique as his fingerprint.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth

“but not before Rory dropped his mouth to my ear. “Hope he was deferential in his hastiness.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth

“But you and me, our sisterhood of Diviners—we’re the moon.” She smiled. “We’re eternal.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth

“but I liked dancing with Diviners best. Hands, skirts, bare feet. The thump, thump, thump of my pulse in perfect time with the music. When we twirled in bold turns near the licking flames, I felt wildly astir. And I wondered why. Why didn’t the Omens speak to me like this? In a melody or a spin or the heartbeat of a drum? Not in the spring, in dreams, where I was in pain and afraid, but like this, loose and infinite, when my soul was split open and thrown skyward in delight.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth

“Which is more intricate?” he mused. “The designs of men, trying to reach gods, or that of gods, trying to reach men?” My hammer collided with a chunk of granite. “What is either to the intricacies of women, who reach both?”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth

“My stock of joy was held in the future”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth

“I have disdain in me”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth

“The whole world is a wood”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth

“But if you wanted to—I would not blame you. It is easier”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth

“Some truly didn’t think about the fact that men and women were being murdered every day by the same government their children pledged allegiance to at school.”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

“The police begged again for peace as they rolled their tanks forward.”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars