The Saints of the Cross Quotes

“For some reason, the despair that's welling up in me is transforming into white-hot rage. I feel it working its way up from my toes, winding around my legs, and burrowing into the pit of my stomach. It spears its razor-sharp tendrils through the pieces of my broken heart. It's crippling, and devastating, and unrelenting. I have only one choice to survive this; I turn that rage outward.”
― Michelle Figley, The Saints of the Cross

“With kids, what you see is what you get. There's just truth in their innocence that we as adults have lost and will never regain.”
― Michelle Figley, The Saints of the Cross

“Well, darling, don't your worry your pretty little head. I've got a type, and you ain't it.”
― Michelle Figley, The Saints of the Cross

“It’s a soul-crushing moment when you have to come to terms with the fact that your decisions have completely destroyed someone else’s life, especially someone you love more than life itself. I know this fact as well as my father does—maybe, more so.”
― Michelle Figley, The Saints of the Cross