The Fatal Flame Quotes

“Knowing even as I craved permanence in New York City, that would never come to pass. The pair of us would live for as long as we could. As well as well could. That was all. Then we'd blow away like wishes made on dandelion heads.”
― Lyndsay Faye, The Fatal Flame

“Time is a tyrant, words our last and only weapons.”
― Lyndsay Faye, The Fatal Flame

“I know formidable women, dozens of them, women who fight and who win... Noble women. Heroic ones.”
― Lyndsay Faye, The Fatal Flame

“Here is another query: is it the duty of Society to burden itself permanently with every vicious woman who becomes a mother? And is it possible to make such an establishment of male and female loafers, even with the best management, anything useful to them or the world? —NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, AUGUST 11, 1847”
― Lyndsay Faye, The Fatal Flame

“Both citizens and noncitizens bribed by the Party by means of jobs and liquor cast as many illegal ballots as they can in a single day, after which said votes will be either tossed in the river or purposefully miscounted.”
― Lyndsay Faye, The Fatal Flame

“Jeers and obscenities trailed after us like optimistic pickpockets.”
― Lyndsay Faye, The Fatal Flame