Our Lady of the Ruins Quotes

“Some days they confuse the walls of their cage with their skin.”
― Traci Brimhall, Our Lady of the Ruins

“Stranger inside me, when you are born, I will give you
a closed book and ask you never to read it, never rest,
never forgive a man who wants to save you.”
― Traci Brimhall, Our Lady of the Ruins

“To sweeten the hours we share scandals from the city, how curators removed an elephant's heart from the museum because it began beating when anyone in love looked at it, how the coroner found minnows swimming in a drowned girl's lungs.”
― Traci Brimhall, Our Lady of the Ruins