Snake-Eater Quotes

“C’mon, Padre, didn’t the Lord promise something about floods?” “He promised not to destroy the world. Individuals are still expected to get to high ground.”
― T. Kingfisher, Snake-Eater

“Finally one of my teachers took me aside and said: ‘Manuel, you are not God. You aren’t omnipotent. Wanting to help is good, but this belief that you, personaly, have so much power to affect the universe is starting to border on personal idolatry.’” He snorted. “He wasn’t wrong.”
“Did that help?” Selena asked.
“Not really, but at least then I felt guilty about feeling guilty, which is very catholic.”
― T. Kingfisher, Snake-Eater

“It was a small kindness you did,” they said. “But you and I are both small creatures”
― T. Kingfisher, Snake-Eater

“Fortunately, some things stay true whether we believe in them or not.”
― T. Kingfisher, Snake-Eater

“Copper gazed at her soulfully and attempted to convey that she had never been petted, not once, but would like to experience it.”
― T. Kingfisher, Snake-Eater

“I like you. I don’t like who you turn into when he’s in the room.”
― T. Kingfisher, Snake-Eater

“You’re right,” she said. “Of course. I’m being stupid.” “No”
― T. Kingfisher, Snake-Eater

“Grandma Billy didn’t seem like a good candidate for a cult”
― T. Kingfisher, Snake-Eater

“Selena believed”
― T. Kingfisher, Snake-Eater

“If I was going to describe the platonic ideal of a Kingfisher horror novel”
― T. Kingfisher, Snake-Eater

“Finally one of my teachers took me aside and said”
― T. Kingfisher, Snake-Eater

“If she were wearing gloves, it would help. I’m thinking about gloves while I’m pushing a load of possessed owl skins to the church. Of course I am.”
― T. Kingfisher, Snake-Eater

“All it took was one run of bad luck and it didn’t matter how hard you’d worked your whole life”
― T. Kingfisher, Snake-Eater

“Was it more humiliating to go insane or to take someone’s gray cornmeal? Selena did not feel that she was cut out for this kind of social arithmetic. Clearly they were far beyond scripts, so she stuck to the bare facts. “There was a man wearing green stripes in the garden. He had something on his head, and then he vanished when I looked away.”
― T. Kingfisher, Snake-Eater

“Does that work?” “Probably not. Brains aren’t big enough to shove gratitude into. Still, never hurts to try.” She scooped the creature up with a spatula and shoved the frying pan handle into Selena’s hand. The scorpion sat inside the pan, looking sullen (although Selena was willing to admit that she might be projecting a bit).”
― T. Kingfisher, Snake-Eater

“Dunno,” she said finally. “It’s like telling apart people, I guess. You might not recognize someone after the first time, but the third or fourth or tenth time, you know who they are. It’s the same with plants. You just have to get good at looking at them.”
― T. Kingfisher, Snake-Eater