The Accident Season Quotes

“Accidents happen. Our bones shatter, our skin splits, our hearts break. We burn, we drown, we stay alive.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, The Accident Season

“There are no ghosts; only the dust in the light, our breath and the wind in the quiet, and the feeling that something, or a lot of somethings, are watching us. So maybe there are ghosts after all.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, The Accident Season

“All witches keep their kisses in everyday objects, so that their hearts won’t break too often.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, The Accident Season

“The tear in my world is getting bigger. Soon it'll blow the whole universe apart.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, The Accident Season

“There's this magical place,' he says with mock solemnity, 'called a library--I don't know if you've heard of it, but they have books, and also newspaper, and back issues of newspapers...”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, The Accident Season

“I think that we all drown, in one way or another.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, The Accident Season

“We bite back the things we can't say and we cushion every surface for the inevitable moment when they all come fighting out.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, The Accident Season

“The day is still bright, but fading, like it's tired of holding on to the sun and the birdsong and the green smells of the fields just outside of town.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, The Accident Season

“Nick looks at Alice like she's the only person on the planet he can see in full color.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, The Accident Season

“I am afraid of everybody else's secrets”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, The Accident Season

“I never thought that having my world blown right open would feel so goddamn good.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, The Accident Season

“In the ghost house in the last days of the accident season, we were never going to die.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, The Accident Season

“Evitamos falar das coisas sobre as quais não podemos falar e cobrimos cada superfície para nos proteger do momento inevitável em que tudo virá à tona.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, The Accident Season

“Sam helps my mother peel a banana and carefully pours his own tea. (We stopped my mother from hiding the kettle two weeks ago. We are content to live without sharp knives and the gas hob, but living without tea is just impossible”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, The Accident Season

“One more drink for the watery road.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, The Accident Season

“Certas palavras não há tinta que apague.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, The Accident Season