Blood Lure Quotes

“Anna… envied Joan’s deep connection with the human race. She was a member of the club. Anna was half convinced she’d been begotten by a passing alien life-form on a human woman. It was as good an explanation as any for the sense she had of being an outsider.”
― Nevada Barr, Blood Lure

“childhood. A time when everything was new and hence nothing was strange. Miracles were commonplace and, so, unremarkable. The rules, not yet pounded into the fabric of the mind like great rusted nails, were easily suspended.”
― Nevada Barr, Blood Lure

“Think you’re so important? Put your finger in a bucket of water, pull it out and see how big a hole it leaves.”
― Nevada Barr, Blood Lure

“Anna’s illusion of control had been smashed years before with the sudden, meaningless death of her husband. In the years since, she’d made an effort not to give in to the need to put the pieces back together, but to see and know and accept with some degree of grace that life is meaningless. There is no Grand Plan. Everything doesn’t happen for the best. One can knock till one’s knuckles are bloody and the door may not be opened.”
― Nevada Barr, Blood Lure

“paddock. “Will do,” Anna said, feeling mildly miffed. In her mind she heard her tiny, mean, long-dead grandmother cackling: “Think you’re so important? Put your finger in a bucket of water, pull it out and see how big a hole it leaves.”
― Nevada Barr, Blood Lure

“The light that remained was of the clear gray quality that reminds one that the sky is not a blanket of blue benevolently spread over the earth but only the beginning of cold and impossible distances”
― Nevada Barr, Blood Lure

“Another terrific reason for not having children: it was so disturbing when animals ate them.”
― Nevada Barr, Blood Lure