Nobody's Goddess Quotes

“I went to give this back to the—the lady. She wasn’t there, but you left Elgar.”

I snatched the pieces from Jurij’s hands. “You went back to the shack? What were you going to say? ‘Sorry we were spying on you pretending you were a monster, thanks for the dirty old rag?”
― Amy McNulty, Nobody's Goddess

“I’d like to be excused now.” I stood up.

Half-a-dozen specters surrounded me on either side before I could take one step.

“Sit down,” said the lord behind the black curtain. “Please.”

I did not. “I’m not feeling well,” I said through clenched teeth.

“You have not eaten enough. Food will improve your temper.”

A few well-placed stabs from Elgar the Blade to his abdomen might “improve my temper.”
― Amy McNulty, Nobody's Goddess

“She seemed to have lost a front tooth since the last time we’d had the pleasure of talking face to face. Or, rather, face in face.”
― Amy McNulty, Nobody's Goddess

“My children, I have heard your screams, seen your tears. You stirred my heart at the first cry, and so I leaped from the mountains and fell for ages, watching you suffer for years on end. At last my feet have touched the ground. You are no longer alone”
― Amy McNulty, Nobody's Goddess

“I need to speak with the lord of the village. It’s … it’s urgent.”

The man scoffed. “I can tell. You seem to have rolled out of a muddy pond and caught your dress on a hundred branches. Perhaps you also bumped into a fair maiden, making off with her apron.”

I forced myself to smile. “Not far off. But the mud is just the color of the dress.”

“Of course. It suits you.”

“Thanks.”
― Amy McNulty, Nobody's Goddess

“I sighed heavily. He was making no sense. Leave it to me to wind up with the recluse with little grip on his sanity”
― Amy McNulty, Nobody's Goddess

“I cannot leave this castle, Olivière! I do not know one person in this village from the next. I blink and they die. I die and they would not know—they could not imagine the depth of the pain I feel.”
― Amy McNulty, Nobody's Goddess