A Whisper of Smoke Quotes

“Perhaps, when you leave your childhood behind too early and jump into adulthood, certain parts of you never fully grow up. They just become stunted child parts disguised in a grown-up body.”
― Angela Hoke, A Whisper of Smoke

“And I had learned that lesson with a drowning dose of humility - humility born of knowing that I had failed Hank in every way that I believed Mama had failed me, failed all of us; humility that had painfully driven home the realization that every human being is capable of terrible transgressions, and exquisite goodness, and that neither has to define a person.”
― Angela Hoke, A Whisper of Smoke

“There was nothing to disturb the senses, as if we'd entered a void - some rip in space and time where the senses became useless. You could get lost here, and no one would find you unless you wanted to be found. It was seductive, this nothingness.”
― Angela Hoke, A Whisper of Smoke

“The worst thing could be right next to us, visible in one second, then just as quickly swallowed up with a change in the wind. It would be easy to pretend like it wasn’t there, like you’d never glimpsed it. [...] But you can’t ignore it, of course. Just because you can’t see it anymore, doesn’t mean it’s not still there, lurking. Sometimes you even have to go looking for it.”
― Angela Hoke, A Whisper of Smoke

“Suddenly, I was filled with anxiety and craved the ignorance that was the before to this unfortunate after.”
― Angela Hoke, A Whisper of Smoke

“Every human being is capable of terrible transgressions, and exquisite goodness, and that neither has to define a person.”
― Angela Hoke, A Whisper of Smoke