Kin Quotes

“Finch was his own country, the government unstable, the population volatile.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Kin

“Living is hard; Death is easy. And there are no answers on either side.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Kin

“Without proof of an afterlife, they were intimately aware of their mortality and the limitations of it.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Kin

“He wasn't afraid to die. He was afraid to die alone.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Kin

“Don't you get it? It doesn't matter where I go. Here, back there, France, the North Pole, it doesn't matter. I'll never be safe again. You could build a castle around me and seal it up and I'd still be what I am. And what I am is scared.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Kin

“if you're hell-bent on lookin' for fairness, you're on the wrong damn planet.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Kin

“You leave that lid screwed on tight, we're gonna die sooner'r later. Best just to set us loose while we still know how to fly.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Kin

“Pete would listen carefully to his father's words, and feel the pain that came with them, but told himself Pa was only saying those things out of disappointment and anger, and because it was better to throw mean words at the boy than at his own reflection in the mirror.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Kin

“Every time I walk these streets I think we made some kinda bet with God and lost.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Kin

“Everything isn't dead. Only gone.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Kin

“The sorrow was worse because it came unbidden, and unlike the anger, which demanded action, pain, a release of any kind, sorrow asked nothing but for him to just be still while it spread through him like a cancer and drained his resolve, his will to do anything but sleep and feel sorry for himself.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Kin

“A stone dropped in a pond, Claire thought, forever making ripples. And it would never stop. There was no bank for it to break against. Instead, like a shockwave, it would continue on until there was no one left to feel it.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Kin

“It wouldn't matter if between now and her time of discharge they discovered a cure for rape, a way to give a sexually abused woman back her dignity, and in Claire's case, her virginity, the fact was that the violence had been done, its impact irreversible, and some vital part of her had been destroyed in the process, a part of her she hadn't known existed until it was stolen.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Kin

“He quickly brought the gun up, even as she brought the wire down like a tribal Indian spearing a fish.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Kin

“Standing with the headlights behind them, they looked like devils come from Hell itself.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Kin

“Angels told me you're the poison, and always have been. Said you used God as an excuse to hurt people, includin' your own kin.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Kin

“Keep goin', he told himself. Not far. Get there and you can sit and figure out what happens next. But keep movin'.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Kin

“Beside him, Finch had found peace, and for a moment Beau envied him so much that his eyes started to close, and he quickly shook his head, braced a hand on the ground and raised himself up. He cried out and stopped, but did not abandon the progress he'd made. With one hand clamped over his belly, he drew his legs beneath him, relying on their strength to help him up, and they did. He stood, shoulder pressed to the tree, gasping, his knees trembling, the front of his jeans soaked with blood. Beau was weak from blood loss, but he was not yet dead, and that was something.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Kin

“He'd first seen her as a battered broken thing and his empathy had quickly become desire. She would wake, he'd believed, and she would need him. But it was clear now that she needed no one.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Kin

“Do what you have to do, I guess. But sooner or later you're going to run out of mirrors to shoot at. Then what will you do?”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Kin

“I need to see the world put back on its axis, things put right, even if I don't belong in it anymore.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Kin

“Finch knew that no matter how old it might say she was on her I.D., what those men had done to her had shoved her headlong into adulthood.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Kin

“A thin pig was about as common as balls on a scarecrow.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Kin

“Everything is preplanned, a fact that might not upset humankind as much if they were let in on the secret,”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Kin

“He had not yet been educated on the kind of monsters who preyed on Samaritans.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Kin