Bloom Town Quotes

“Maybe shame needed your permission to enter in. Maybe it was a manmade construct, like time.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Genesis

“Because everyone leaves in the end. Everyone. Sooner you accept that you’re on this wreck of a planet alone the sooner you can get on with makin’ the best of it.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Genesis

“How dare they. How dare they use God to justify such blatant evil.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Genesis

“For anyone who has suffered at the hands of small-minded people, and for all those still battling the lingering ghosts of religious trauma.   ”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Genesis

“Reverend Dawson stopped him. “We’re prepared to pay you good money. We need your help to right this wrong.” “You’ve got the Lord on your side!” Frex bellowed jovially. “What the hell do ya’ll need me for?” Silas shook his head. “Because we don’t know what to do about JT London." Frex smiled. “Why not just pray for her?” ”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Genesis

“Abby folded the paper in quarters, hiding it deep in the pocket of her trousers. She’d find her way to a town and then, first chance she got, she would turn Joey in. Tell the nearest sheriff exactly where he could find her. Then she’d take that reward money and use every last dime to help Jack and Olive get back home to London. Back to whatever life she’d robbed them of. To their real family, who’d undoubtedly lost hope long ago.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Genesis

“When you’re the preacher’s only child—only daughter, no less, it’s um. It’s hard? The entire town is always watching you. When you’re small you feel important because everyone knows who you are, everyone wants to be your friend.” Why was she telling Joey all this? “But when you get older, it’s as if those same people who adored you are just waiting for you to slip up. They seek gossip the way I imagine other people seek enlightenment or happiness. They crave it, just to distract themselves from how unremarkable their own lives are.”
― Ally North, Bloom Town: Genesis