Reliquary Quotes

“You care about having something to point to that proves you aren’t as bad as the rest of your family. And that’s true, though the bar is in hell so what does it matter, but you’ve benefited from this for years. Everything your family has sacrificed other people for, you have enjoyed, and you only balked when it was time for you to do your part.”
― Hannah Whitten, Reliquary

“Nice doesn’t mean good.”
― Hannah Whitten, Reliquary

“Made it a god instead of a monster.” Ash snorted. “That’s the difference between the two, I guess. Worship. What’s a god no one knows about? Nothing.”
― Hannah Whitten, Reliquary

“Terror, apparently, was the dread, the awful anticipation of seeing something that would scare you. Horror was how you reacted when you actually saw the thing.”
― Hannah Whitten, Reliquary

“Here was something unimaginably terrible, the kind of thing that should send her straight to a padded room, but Claire knew how to turn away from that. How to leave it lying there, step over it, keep doggedly moving forward.”
― Hannah Whitten, Reliquary

“It was almost comforting, thinking about the way she’d let the sobs rack her body when this was finally over. The scream she’d let rip from her throat. Maybe she’d tear at her hair like a madwoman, claw at her face. Maybe she’d go fully around the bend and decide to stay there. Once she was out of here, she’d turn it all loose, and wherever the impulsivity of emotion led her, she’d go. She had years of it, all pent up and waiting, compounded now by what she’d seen.”
― Hannah Whitten, Reliquary

“You know you can find it in yourself. That your life has meaning, just by virtue of being. It doesn’t have to be given weight by someone else.”
― Hannah Whitten, Reliquary

“Jesus.”

“Would probably not approve of our business practices, no.”
― Hannah Whitten, Reliquary