Bloom Town Quotes

“4. I dream about you every goddamn night. Every time I even close my eyes. But my dreams blur the edges and I’m driving myself mad thinking that one day that’s all I’ll have left of you. Blurred edges in my dreams.   5. I want you to know that I”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Exodus

“The sun may be a million miles away, but still it lights the moon.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Exodus

“I listened to you, now you listen to me,” she said, her tone gentle, but there was an undercurrent there—something dangerous just beneath. “I’ve changed. I’m better than I was because I wanted to be better for the children. For Lewis. For you. I fucked up, I shouldn’t have left you, I shouldn’t have—” she gestured, grimacing, “the chloroform. Was a poor choice.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Exodus

“Remember what you told me? About anger and happiness and how you get to choose?” He nodded, slow and careful. “Family is like that too. When you’re old enough, you get to choose.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Exodus

“I’m sorry they won’t know you. It’s a loss they’ll never even know to grieve.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Exodus: Bloom Town, Book 2

“You listen to me and you listen well,” Esther said, stretching out to hold Abby’s hand. “Happiness and love are not finite goods to be bartered and rationed. They expand upon each other; they grow and touch others and shed light into dark corners. You should want happiness all the more for the sorry state of the world so that you can share it.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Exodus

“Frex laughed, but not unkindly. “Don’t doubt there will be a war, and I don’t doubt they’ll claim it’s to free the slaves.” Abby looked at him. “What else would it be for?” “There’s a million reasons men go to war and just one reason they don’t.” He looked at her. “Benevolence.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Exodus

“My people are wise enough not to make laws about that which cannot be governed.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Exodus

“Happiness and love are not finite goods to be bartered and rationed. They expand upon each other; they grow and touch others and shed light into dark corners. You should want happiness all the more for the sorry state of the world so that you can share it.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Exodus

“When we were leaving Wry, when I was ill…he said I hope you die. So he thinks it’s his fault.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Exodus

“that Abby was a coward.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Exodus

“The circle of rope that had been tied around his waist dangled like a stretched noose. He’d slipped out of it.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Exodus

“don’t kill him.” She couldn’t explain it, couldn’t understand it herself, but some hidden, primal part of her had flared to life in that instant. He was a monster. A madman. She hated him. And yet, she didn’t want to see him slain.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Exodus

“Joey had just…she’d shot him. Right there in front of her.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Exodus

“Because your version of God is powerless. He’s fiction, and poor fiction at that. He’s words in a fucking book that you use to control and condemn and compel.” The rumble grew and grew and the earthquake shook the ground and Abby was the epicenter. “I saved myself with my own hands—not because I’m strong, not because I believe, but because I wanted to live. And believe me, the desire to live is enormous motivation when you realize you’ve only just then been handed the chance to do so freely. Your power comes from a set of laws made up by men for the purpose of keeping people scared, but it’s fallible. Fear is powerful but it lacks strength. That’s what I learned that day, hanging onto those rocks, watching my father ride away. I learned that I have more power in my own two fucking hands than your God could ever hope to summon from the whole of the universe.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Exodus