The Breeders Quotes

“Their love is so solid, like the beams that hold this house up.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“I like torturing myself. Maybe someday I’ll stop, but not today.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“She says love like its a verb, something you chose to do. In my experience you either love someone or you don’t. Love boils under your skin like fire. Even when you don’t want it to.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“Fear makes the coyote bigger than he is." Right now the coyote’s pretty damn big, but I gotta do what I gotta do. I stick my chest out and strut like a man down the street.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“Ethan deserves to survive. It’s my job to make sure he does.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“Fear makes the coyote bigger than he is.” Right now the coyote’s pretty damn big, but I gotta do what I gotta do. I stick my chest out and strut like a man down the street.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“Right now, being together is enough.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“Because," he says smiling, "we’ll be together.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“You ready?" His understanding eyes seem to realize what he’s asking. I shake my head.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“Kissing him is letting cool water slip over your body on a scorching day. Like the charge that crackles in the air after a lightening storm. Like the eating the last chocolate on earth, the sweetness melting on your tongue.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“It doesn’t matter, I tell myself. She’s tough. And, so it turns out, am I.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“Yelling in a church is probably a sin, but I’m not sure anyone’s up there counting. If they are, I owe them big time.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“Her cries echo from every quiet corner.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“Our victories are a drop of water in the ocean.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“you were right. Sometimes you have to be reckless for someone you love.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“One more step and you’ll be leakin’. I ain’t afraid of you no more, pa.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“All I really wanted," I say looking deep into his eyes, "was to be with the people I love.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“Alone is better. The only person that can cut you when you’re alone is yourself.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“Yeah, I was giving them trouble. When that guard wanted to rape me, I gave them some trouble.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“It feels as though the fire’s burning hotter each second.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“He thinks I’m in love with you." "Oh.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“Too bad they’re willing to sacrifice human life for progress.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“Crying is one of the only things I’m still free to do.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“It’s maddening, slow torture watching people long dead live out their life while I can’t do a damn thing to live my own.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“Being a woman is terrible. If you aren’t being used for one purpose, someone find another use for you. And what choice is there? The hard, painful fight for freedom. The fight I’ve lost.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“Please don’t let the end hurt.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“I have one thought: this is what crazy looks like.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“Jesus is the reason." As I drift off I wonder what he’s the reason for.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“Even if he doesn’t turn me in and actually wants to be with me, he’d have to devote the rest of his life to protecting me from, well, every other person in the world. It’s a lot to ask.”
― Katie French, The Breeders

“I’ll say this once and then I never want you to ask me again.”
― Katie French, The Breeders