Not a Drop to Drink Quotes

“There's a famous line from a poem about the ocean," Mother had finally said to end the discussion. "'Water water every where, but not a drop to drink.”
― mindy mcginnis, Not a Drop to Drink

“Do you want to die like this?" Mother had asked, that night and every night since then.

Lynn's answer never changed. "No."

And Mother's response, their evening prayer. "Then you will have to kill.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Not a Drop to Drink

“Regret was for people with nothing to defend, people who had no water.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Not a Drop to Drink

“You can't change the things you've done. It's now and the here on out you've got control of.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Not a Drop to Drink

“There's different ways of doing things wrong, Lynn, and not all of it is choosing to hurt others. Sometimes it's the things you don't do that make you feel the worst.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Not a Drop to Drink

“Type of men who gather up seven of themselves to attack two women in the middle of the night generally won't go back for dead friends.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Not a Drop to Drink

“Why do you always quote poetry at me when all I want is a straight answer?”
― Mindy McGinnis, Not a Drop to Drink

“Just know that there's bad men in the world, and dying fast by your mother is a better way than theirs.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Not a Drop to Drink

“Things have changed," Mother answered, her gaze drawn to the southern horizon. "So we change with them.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Not a Drop to Drink

“Where you go, he'll go," Stebbs said.

"I know it."

"Tough caring about people, isn't it?"

... "Wouldn't trade it," she said.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Not a Drop to Drink

“Another low moan rose from the grass. "That was a good shot," Mother said, nodding toward it.

"Not good enough."

Mother shrugged. "It was dark." She rose and stretched out her stiff body, a sign that she truly felt safe. "You'll get better."

Another cry. Mother licked her finger, tested the wind, and fired once into the night.

Silence fell.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Not a Drop to Drink

“Lynn kept her eye to the scope, unable to look away from the path of the only bullet she had ever fired with love in her heart.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Not a Drop to Drink

“Men got two guns, you know. One for now," he tapped the barrel of his gun against her nose. "And one for later." When his free hand went to his zipper, she twisted underneath him, bringing her knee into his groin and pulling her knife from her boot.
"Mother taught me to carry a knife for always."
She left him holding his intestines in disbelief as she disappeared down the hill, his gun tucked securely in her waistband.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Not a Drop to Drink

“Kiddo, you and me don't do so well in situations we can't control.'

'Don't think I care for that.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Not a Drop to Drink

“Killing people was easier when the only face I ever saw was Mother’s back then, anyone else was the enemy and shooting at an outline in a scope wasn’t any different than taking down a deer, just in a different shape.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Not a Drop to Drink

“Do you want to die like this?” Mother had asked that night and every night since then.
Lynn’s answer never changed. “No.”
And Mother’s response, their evening prayer. “Then you will have to kill.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Not a Drop to Drink

“I’d lost everything I had. I didn’t have the heart to take from someone else.” “Plus I would’ve sniped your ass.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Not a Drop to Drink

“Lynn pulled her own rifle into her lap, the cold metal bringing more comfort to her than Mother’s touch ever could. Her finger curled around the trigger, hugging it tight in the life-taking embrace that she’d learned so long ago. She slipped onto her belly beside Mother, watching the sunlight bounce off the twin barrels of their rifles. Waiting was always the worst part, the crack of the rifle a relief.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Not a Drop to Drink

“I'd say he's not much older than you," Mother said when she noticed.

"Really?" Lynn peered closer at his face. "How can you tell?"

"Well," Mother peered up at the gray sky as she considered how to answer, "I guess it's in the way his skin isn't so tough, he's still got the little bit of baby soft on him.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Not a Drop to Drink

“...I'm asking you to be more than she was. Be strong, and be good. Be loved, and be thankful for it. No regrets.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Not a Drop to Drink

“There's plenty of good seed sown by the bad.”
― Mindy McGinnis, Not a Drop to Drink