The Exorcism of Faeries Quotes

“Moving a corpse in the rain is such fussy, slippery business.”
― J.L. Vampa, The Exorcism of Faeries

“* a stór (uh stohr)—Irish Gaelic; meaning my darling, or my treasure”
― J.L. Vampa, The Exorcism of Faeries

“Outside, the campus was bustling with students, a hint of the approaching autumn on the wind, stirring the leaves that would soon lose their chlorophyll and show the world how beautiful it is to die.”
― J.L. Vampa, The Exorcism of Faeries

“Atta closed her eyes, breathing in deeply the scent of Sonder, the beauty of their love. If he were to die, she’d envy the soil that cradled him in its arms, the flora that sprouted from his bones.”
― J.L. Vampa, The Exorcism of Faeries

“Poetry wasn’t in life; it was in what we’ve made of the past, lending it romanticism instead of watching it burn and lie in the ashes.”
― J.L. Vampa, The Exorcism of Faeries

“Winding his way through her trail of notes and open books was as wild as it was endearing. If either of them was a mad scientist, it was Atta—and he adored it.”
― J.L. Vampa, The Exorcism of Faeries

“Sometimes fear cleanses the soul, Atta. It reminds us to look at the important things we took for granted while at peace.”
― J.L. Vampa, The Exorcism of Faeries

“You’ve tangled yourself up in my soul like a vine, a stór.”
― J.L. Vampa, The Exorcism of Faeries

“You, a stór, are everything that is right with the world. My world. With all the worlds.”
― J.L. Vampa, The Exorcism of Faeries

“And Atta was laughing, aglow in the moonlight, her hair a mess of tangles. He almost took off his mask right then and there. But he didn’t want to risk being the reason she stopped laughing.”
― J.L. Vampa, The Exorcism of Faeries

“All right, fuck off then.” He made a shooing motion and dropped his glasses onto the mess of papers, shucking his tweed jacket and rolling the sleeves of his shirt up his forearms.”
― J.L. Vampa, The Exorcism of Faeries

“Are you still jealous, a stór?”
― J.L. Vampa, The Exorcism of Faeries

“a stór (uh stohr)—Irish Gaelic; meaning my darling, or my treasure”
― J.L. Vampa, The Exorcism of Faeries

“If we need plausible deniability, we’re already fucked, a stór.”⁠*”
― J.L. Vampa, The Exorcism of Faeries

“If you so much as look at her the wrong way, I’m the one who will make you wish you were dead. That’s who the fuck I am.”
― J.L. Vampa, The Exorcism of Faeries

“she pondered how peculiar it is that something transcendent, something unparalleled, can take place and yet humans still walk, breathe, move, live the same. Things like hunger and exhaustion should cease to exist in the face of the sublime, the tragic. And yet, there they are. It felt blasphemous.”
― J.L. Vampa, The Exorcism of Faeries

“Fucking hell she was beautiful when she was angry. But not as beautiful as when she laughed.”
― J.L. Vampa, The Exorcism of Faeries

“Are you still jealous, a stór?” “Only of the walls of your room,” she breathed out.”
― J.L. Vampa, The Exorcism of Faeries

“Should I tell you then that I can’t stop thinking about you? That I haven’t thought of another woman since the first moment I saw you outside Achilles House with a corpse you’d cut open yourself?” He took her chin in his fingers. “Or how I have never thought of a woman the way I think of you?” He kissed her gently on the lips. “How I thought I was destined to be alone, but it turns out I was starving all these years, waiting for you?”
― J.L. Vampa, The Exorcism of Faeries

“I’m sorry,” she hiccuped. “I didn’t know where else to go.”
― J.L. Vampa, The Exorcism of Faeries