Chapelwood Quotes

“I really do like curses. They can’t fail, that’s the beauty of them. Any bad thing that happens to either boy, from now until Kingdom Come, they’ll attribute it to my curse. Should the devils survive to adulthood, they’ll tell their children and grandchildren about it. They’ll blame me for everything from their ingrown nails to a fall in stock prices. They’ll swear my name at every paper cut, every death of a child. It’s more power than I have, and more power than anyone deserves. But they’re the ones who give it away, so to hell with them.”
― Cherie Priest, Chapelwood

“It’s a very fine line indeed, and a seductive message at its core: God loves some of us, and is coming for us—and he’ll destroy everything and everyone we don’t like. It’s a great galactic game of “Just wait until your Father gets home!”
― Cherie Priest, Chapelwood

“Father, forgive me—for I know precisely what I’m doing.”
― Cherie Priest, Chapelwood

“People want to be told that they're afraid of all the right things. It's easier that way. They don't have to go to the trouble of learning anything new.”
― Cherie Priest, Chapelwood

“a certain stink on a certain kind of soul, a foul scent of hateful smallness too often thwarted . . . then given an ounce of power.”
― Cherie Priest, Chapelwood

“Besides, American ought to be a good thing, the kind of thing that brings everybody together instead of deciding who’s good enough to be one and who isn’t.”
― Cherie Priest, Chapelwood

“What a horrible reason to shoot someone, as if any decent god gives a damn how he’s worshipped, so long as it’s directed heavenward with love?”
― Cherie Priest, Chapelwood

“But at some point, a full-grown woman has to be accountable for her own self, and for the choices she’s made.”
― Cherie Priest, Chapelwood

“All this, in the midst of a city already plagued by the Ku Klux Klan—a group more sinister and suspicious than most people have any idea, and their public face is troublesome enough without any secret agenda hiding beneath their ridiculous robes. I tell you, they’re stranger than the Freemasons and not half as well thought out, but they’re radical, blind believers of awful things.”
― Cherie Priest, Chapelwood