All Our Pretty Songs Quotes

“You think that the world we live in is ordinary. We make noise and static to fill the empty spaces where ghosts live. We let other people grow our food, bleach our clothes. We seal ourselves in, clean the dirt from our skins, eat of animals whose blood does not stain our hands. We long ago left the ways of our ancestors, oracles and blood sacrifice, traffic with the spirit world, listening for the voices out of stones and trees. But maybe sometimes you have felt the uncanny, alone at night in a dark wood, or waiting by the edge of the ocean for the tide to come in. We have paved over the ancient world, but that does not mean we have erased it.”
― Sarah McCarry, All Our Pretty Songs

“I’m a chalkboard that’s been erased over and over again until there’s nothing left but a haze of white dust. Before this I never understood how long an hour could take, how many ticks of the second hand are in a minute, how endless the space between seconds can be.”
― Sarah McCarry, All Our Pretty Songs

“The hard way is my favorite way to learn.”
― Sarah McCarry, All Our Pretty Songs

“All the cells in my body rearrange, compass needles pointing to his north.”
― Sarah McCarry, All Our Pretty Songs

“It's spring giving way to summer, balmy air smelling of roses, hot skin meeting the cold shock of the ocean, starry nights as warm as kisses.”
― Sarah McCarry, All Our Pretty Songs

“Whatever is happening here, it definitely bypassed go and went straight to really fucking weird without collecting two hundred dollars.”
― Sarah McCarry, All Our Pretty Songs

“Kissing him is like falling into a river, some great fierce current carrying me outside of my body, and all around us the music of the water rises and rises, and I can hear the wind moving over the sand, the distant singing of the stars veiled behind their curtain of blue sky, the slow, resonant chords of the earth turning on its axis.”
― Sarah McCarry, All Our Pretty Songs

“When the music stops the hole inside me is so huge I think I might die from it. Without”
― Sarah McCarry, All Our Pretty Songs

“Does he touch her the way he touched me. *”
― Sarah McCarry, All Our Pretty Songs

“You’re a fairy princess beaming at me, remaking the world in your image. Wiping away everything that hurts. But someday everything that hurts will come back and kill you.”
― Sarah McCarry, All Our Pretty Songs

“How can someone be so close to you and then so far away in the span of a single movement?”
― Sarah McCarry, All Our Pretty Songs

“Stay frosty, motherfuckers!” she bellows at the frat boys, and then she kisses me.”
― Sarah McCarry, All Our Pretty Songs

“Here is my life, this life I never knew I could have, here is the whole world waiting for me, all the possible things. My future is as big as the wild night, the wine-dark sea.”
― Sarah McCarry, All Our Pretty Songs

“Who among us has not wanted to be transformed? I had lived all my life surrounded by extraordinary people, and some nights I would fall asleep wishing to wake up worthy of them.”
― Sarah McCarry, All Our Pretty Songs

“You think that the world we live in is ordinary. We make noise and static to fill the empty spaces where ghosts live.”
― Sarah McCarry, All Our Pretty Songs