The Talking Bone Quotes

“I think about all that is terrible about this life”
― Rene Denfeld, The Talking Bone: A Novel

“It’s funny how we can care so deeply about some people and not at all about others. Maybe the world just feels too big for us to care about everyone at once.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Talking Bone: A Novel

“Her mind was crowded with such facts. Sometimes she wondered what niceness would fill it if she were in a different line of work.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Talking Bone: A Novel

“No living creature should know exactly when it would die. That curse was something only humans delivered to each other”
― Rene Denfeld, The Talking Bone: A Novel

“That was why people had learned to bury the dead. So they no longer had to hear what they had to say.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Talking Bone: A Novel

“For most of her life”
― Rene Denfeld, The Talking Bone: A Novel

“crime doesn’t discriminate. The hatred and contempt for women knows no boundaries.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Talking Bone: A Novel

“It was then that she discovered her secret gift. She was someone the guilty would confess to.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Talking Bone: A Novel

“Most police insisted on treating each case as an anomaly. They didn’t want to see a pattern because if they saw a pattern”
― Rene Denfeld, The Talking Bone: A Novel

“That’s the way of the world”
― Rene Denfeld, The Talking Bone: A Novel

“Men will pay to get each other out of prison; women will pray to get out of hell.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Talking Bone: A Novel

“We all miss our mother when she is gone. She is the root. We are the tree.” Until the tree drops a seed,”
― Rene Denfeld, The Talking Bone: A Novel

“Do we need this many hotels? Do that many people travel? She had the answer for you: They do not. Desirée said most of the hotels were used for affairs”
― Rene Denfeld, The Talking Bone: A Novel

“Ruby remembered reading once that if the country wanted to improve the economy”
― Rene Denfeld, The Talking Bone: A Novel

“Standing there”
― Rene Denfeld, The Talking Bone: A Novel

“Ruby knew what it was like to experience injustice. She knew what it was like to feel—to know—that the world did not care.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Talking Bone: A Novel