The Good Thief Quotes

“Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story...told for the body to forget what it once loved.”
― Marie Howe, The Good Thief

“A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution.”
― Marie Howe, The Good Thief

“Part of Eve’s Discussion

It was like the moment when a bird decides not to eat from your hand,
and flies, just before it flies, the moment the rivers seem to still
and stop because a storm is coming, but there is no storm, as when
a hundred starlings lift and bank together before they wheel and drop,
very much like the moment, driving on bad ice, when it occurs to you
your car could spin, just before it slowly begins to spin, like
the moment just before you forgot what it was you were about to say,
it was like that, and after that, it was still like that, only
all the time.”
― Marie Howe, The Good Thief

“Each of us suffers with envy/for the forgiven.”
― Marie Howe, The Good Thief

“Bedeviled,
human, your plight, in waking, is to choose from the words

that even now sleep on your tongue, and to know that tangled
among them and terribly new is the sentence that could change your life.”
― Marie Howe, The Good Thief