All the Blue-Eyed Angels Quotes

“You look like you’re thinking some pretty deep thoughts there,” he said. “Just pondering the little mysteries,” I said. “Why are we here; where do we go when we die; am I really the only one who believes the Kardashians are a clear sign of the end times?”
― Jen Blood, All the Blue-Eyed Angels

“After my conversation with the Reverend, I went straight to the paper to catch Diggs up on everything I’d learned. It was only seven-thirty in the morning, but gray skies and lack of sleep had my internal clock running backward. It could have been noon, it could have been midnight. Hell, it could have been Cleveland for all I knew.”
― Jen Blood, All the Blue-Eyed Angels

“Across the street, the general store was already in full swing. Pickups were packed in tight, fishermen in yellow slickers loitering outside with cigarettes and hot coffee. It looked like a casting call for the next Gorton’s fish sticks spokesman.”
― Jen Blood, All the Blue-Eyed Angels

“The cats,” he explained. “Whoever blew up the house took the time to get them out first—a neighbor found them prowling around the wreckage this morning.” “So, a killer who doesn’t mind beating the crap out of girls or murdering an ex-cop with tow-headed grandbabies, but gets squeamish about torching the family feline. Bizarre.” “Very,”
― Jen Blood, All the Blue-Eyed Angels

“Come home soon,” I said. “Yeah, right. Between your mom and the Greatest Cuban-American Hero, I’m thinking of having a shower installed here.” At the look on my face, he changed his tune. “I’ll wrap up in an hour or so—you’ll be fine. Very few mothers eat their young once they’ve hit maturity.” With”
― Jen Blood, All the Blue-Eyed Angels

“If you go out to the island again, you’ll take me or Juarez? I don’t know how much help I’d be, but Juarez has a gun and James Bond hair, so I’m pretty sure he could do some damage. And when push comes to shove, I can scream like a banshee.” I’d”
― Jen Blood, All the Blue-Eyed Angels

“Physically, everything about him whispered an implication of the erotic—he looked like the kind of man who could recite Yeats to you in one breath and tie you to the bedpost in the next. But, he drove like my grandfather and had the musical tastes of a prepubescent girl. I”
― Jen Blood, All the Blue-Eyed Angels

“I don’t know what I’d been hoping for, but it was something along the lines of, ‘Sorry I held out on you all these years—Colonel Mustard did it in the chapel with a tiki torch and a bottle of lighter fluid. And, oh yeah, here’s why.’ Clearly,”
― Jen Blood, All the Blue-Eyed Angels

“They say you can’t go home again. In my case, it seems more apt to ask why the hell you’d ever want to.”
― Jen Blood, All the Blue-Eyed Angels

“My comrade-in-arms, Einstein—part terrier, part Muppet, and so-named not for any propensity toward genius but rather for his unruly white curls—padded along beside me, ears and tail up, his nails clicking on the faded gray linoleum floor.”
― Jen Blood, All the Blue-Eyed Angels

“He restoreth my soul. He leadeth me on a path of righteousness for His name’s sake. A coal black, claw-like hand reaches from beneath the pile of burned debris where my father weeps.”
― Jen Blood, All the Blue-Eyed Angels

“with the vow that I would never return. That was fifteen years ago. Littlehope is a fishing village at the end of a peninsula on Penobscot Bay, about two hours from Portland. It’s known for Bennett’s”
― Jen Blood, All the Blue-Eyed Angels

“Juarez had it all over Diggs when it came to breaking and entering.”
― Jen Blood, All the Blue-Eyed Angels