A Sin & a Half Quotes

“Maybe, Pascal thought, there's no proper way to impale someone.”
― Robyn Abbott, A Sin & a Half

“Water couldn't understand impatience because water couldn't die. It dripped and seeped and sunk and was slurped and absorbed and rained down somewhere new, always making its way back to the ocean, back to its home.”
― Robyn Abbott, A Sin & a Half

“Three lucky ravens hid from the rain within a dilapidated woodshed, feeling like ravens commonly do—that they were rather clever.”
― Robyn Abbott, A Sin & a Half

“Bone would pierce his skin, and once he'd fallen to the earth, his blood would seep out of his flesh and drip into the soil. An endless world of miniature organisms would rise and fall within his blood, nourishing the pampas grass beneath his boots. Entire ecosystems and galaxies would expand and shrink, feeding off his remains, passing along the breath of life through nutrients sipped by plant roots.”
― Robyn Abbott, A Sin & a Half

“A man made of clouds, a woman made of stars, and a child made of bears held each other tightly beneath the tree as arrows landed in a perfect line in the white, flaky trunk.”
― Robyn Abbott, A Sin & a Half

“I want to know what it's like to touch someone and not have them take anything from me.”
― Robyn Abbott, A Sin & a Half

“To die was terrible, but to die in front of the man you were drawn to? That was terrible and embarrassing.”
― Robyn Abbott, A Sin & a Half

“She nodded and took a breath, trying to prepare herself for whatever was coming. It didn't work; a person can't prepare for pain. They can only trick themselves into thinking they've prepared.”
― Robyn Abbott, A Sin & a Half

“In the folded and refolded sense of the word, humans in the overlaid realm had no religion; they had Macbeth, and Macbeth had one rule: don't mess with things you don't understand.”
― Robyn Abbott, A Sin & a Half

“. . . nothing felt better than being trusted by an animal because they couldn't be tricked as easily as people could.”
― Robyn Abbott, A Sin & a Half

“To be fair, the ninety-seven souls who called Half-Brill home had been warned.”
― Robyn Abbott, A Sin & a Half