The Gathering Quotes

“The tree has lived here for two hundred years. The man only a few decades. But the man has an axe. And the tree cannot run.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Gathering

“But just because a fear was foolish didn’t make it any less real.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Gathering

“And the fact was, colonies didn’t tend to settle near big cities. It was easy to be liberal when the wolf wasn’t at your own door.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Gathering

“It was no surprise that drug addicts and alcoholics found God during their recovery. They had to replace one addiction with another.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Gathering

“THE SUN WILL BE TURNED INTO DARKNESS, AND THE MOON INTO BLOOD.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Gathering

“And maybe that was the curse of growing up, the passing of youth and innocence. Understanding that the adults we once looked up to are flawed and imperfect and, sometimes, just plain rotten.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Gathering

“There is no such thing as immortality. Death visited us all eventually. The only difference was when he came and how long he lingered. When you lived for centuries, you died for decades.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Gathering

“He’d scowled, picked up his drink and thrown it back before slamming his glass down on the bar. Make mine an old-fashioned shot of toxic masculinity, Barbara thought.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Gathering

“Let kids be kids and they'll burn the whole damn world down.”
― C. J. Tudor, The Gathering

“It wasn’t so unusual for a small town like this to have its own chapel or pastor. A lot of towns near colonies did. Since the Vampyr Protection Act was signed into law in 1983, religious opposition had been growing. Churches had mobilized in protest against the “spawn of Satan.” As with so many things in life, battle lines had been drawn, between the right-wing evangelicals who believed that vampyrs should be hunted down and killed (because that was what Jesus would want) and the “woke” liberals who believed that minorities should be protected and respected. Age old. Barbara had seen it with race, homosexuality, women’s rights, abortion, trans rights.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Gathering

“You could tell them, give them all the warnings, but you couldn’t protect kids from themselves.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Gathering

“Let kids be kids and they’ll burn the whole damn world down.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Gathering

“There is no such thing as immortality. Death visited us all eventually. The only difference was when he came and how long he lingered.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Gathering

“the mind, human or vampyr, was not designed to endure long periods of absolute reality. It was why we dreamed, of course.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Gathering

“Since the Vampyr Protection Act was signed into law in 1983, religious opposition had been growing. Churches had mobilized in protest against the “spawn of Satan.” As with so many things in life, battle lines had been drawn, between the right-wing evangelicals who believed that vampyrs should be hunted down and killed (because that was what Jesus would want) and the “woke” liberals who believed that minorities should be protected and respected. Age old. Barbara had seen it with race, homosexuality, women’s rights, abortion, trans rights.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Gathering

“Barbara was glad she didn’t have children. She didn’t think she could handle the terror that such unconditional love brought. ‘Like trying to guide a balloon through the world without puncturing it,”
― C.J. Tudor, The Gathering

“You know nothing. You wear your ignorance as righteousness. But your zealotry has poisoned you.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Gathering

“Athelinda had long ago realized that the mind, human or vampyr, was not designed to endure long periods of absolute reality. It was why we dreamed, of course. But also, why we made up stories, read books, watched plays and films.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Gathering

“These are boys. They don’t stick to each other like girls do.’ ‘Well, girls wouldn’t have to do that if it wasn’t for boys, sir.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Gathering

“Age might bring wisdom, but it also brought indigestion and elasticated pants.”
― C.J. Tudor, The Gathering