Molly Molloy and the Angel of Death Quotes

“Molly steeled herself. She knew what he was seeing: her somewhat lopsided breasts, the stretch marks at her hips, the hair she tidied up with a razor in the shower when she thought of it and not often, the swelling at her ankles that had become semipermanent now that she spent most of her day on her feet.

He saw all of it and loved it all. And when the shadows disappeared, he wore nothing but the look of a man who knows firsthand what a miracle is.”
― Maria Vale, Molly Molloy and the Angel of Death

“This is what happened, he thought, when you disobey Admonishments. You felt spicy and shaky and cold and heavy and angry and sad. He didn't like it. He wanted to go back before, before he even felt Curiosity, the disastrous first feeling, and Shame, the second feeling, that put a leash on it.”
― Maria Vale, Molly Molloy and the Angel of Death

“Why do you do that? Rub his hand?"

"Because in the beginning when we understand nothing else, there's touch. And at the end, when we understand nothing else, there's touch.”
― Maria Vale, Molly Molloy and the Angel of Death

“It’s so easy, he thought, for the all-powerful to be generous, so easy that it is meaningless. Here, with Molly who had so little but shared her time and her self anyway, Death knew that he was closer to divinity than he had ever been.”
― Maria Vale, Molly Molloy and the Angel of Death

“Because in the beginning when we understand nothing else, there’s touch. And at the end, when we understand nothing else, there’s touch.”
― Maria Vale, Molly Molloy and the Angel of Death

“Why do you do that? Rub his hand?” “Because in the beginning when we understand nothing else, there’s touch. And at the end, when we understand nothing else, there’s touch.”
― Maria Vale, Molly Molloy and the Angel of Death