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“Jude taught me what love was: to be willing to hold on to another person's pain. That's it.”
― Stephanie Oakes, The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly

“That's how you avoid becoming a moth," he says. "Stop asking others what to believe. Figure it out for yourself.”
― Stephanie Oakes, The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly

“I guess people can't be content without answers, even if they're wrong. We'd rather have a lie than a question that we can never know the answer to.”
― Stephanie Oakes, The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly

“I think you should be angry if you're angry. But it's also true that hate has a way of hurting you more than the person you're hating.”
― Stephanie Oakes, The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly

“Growing up, I believed in miracles. I guess I don’t anymore.”
― Stephanie Oakes, The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly

“Everything in the universe comes from stars. Before anything else existed, there were just stars. Stars are like ovens,” she says. “Inside, they’re cooking planets and asteroids, and when they explode, out spews all this, like, space vomit that’s been cooking all these years. And solar systems formed, and Earth formed, and algae and eventually oxygen. And small organisms evolved into big animals and after about a billion years we came out, so that’s your answer. We come from the stars.”
― Stephanie Oakes, The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly

“I figure out they’re not making me new hands. They can’t do that, the doctor says like I’m slow, and I turn away to glare at the wall, eyes burning. Growing up, I believed in miracles. I guess I don’t anymore.”
― Stephanie Oakes, The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly

“I am a blood-soaked girl.”
― Stephanie Oakes, The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly

“It is amazing that, though I am small and ungifted and barely educated, even I can appreciate the scale of the universe. And from this perch in space, for this moment at least, it seems unimportant whether someone made it, or if it made itself.”
― Stephanie Oakes, The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly

“Belief shouldn't be compatible with lies, but is.”
― Stephanie Oakes, The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly

“Did he say anything interesting?” I ask. “A revelation that the Lord is reborn in a chicken nugget, maybe?”
― Stephanie Oakes, The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly

“You know, when I was little, my dad told me that if I misbehaved, he'd send me to live with a witch who ate children.'

'Really?'

She nods. 'I was so afraid of the witch. Feelings are magnified when you're young, I think, and the fear can stay with you for a long time. I eventually grew out of the fear but even now when I read something with a witch, my mind always traces back to that story. Isn't that weird?'

'How'd you grow out of it?' I ask. 'The fear?'

She takes a long moment to answer. 'I read lots and lots of books about witches.”
― Stephanie Oakes, The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly

“Jude used to try to make me laugh, and when I'd crack a smile he'd keep the joke going , like breath on an ember, making it grow into a fit of giggles that'd echo around the whole forest and make all the birds in the trees quiet.”
― Stephanie Oakes, The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly