The Feathered Bone Quotes

“Love is the child of freedom, never that of domination.”
― Julie Cantrell, The Feathered Bone

“Feathers—no matter what size or shape or color—are all the same, if you think about them. They’re soft. Delicate. But the secret thing about feathers is . . . they are very strong.”
― Julie Cantrell, The Feathered Bone

“Ryan’s case, the root of the pain was his own brain. An imbalanced chemical reaction. It had nothing at all to do with how many Sundays he sat in those pews. It was an illness. He died from that disease just as others die from cancer or pneumonia.”
― Julie Cantrell, The Feathered Bone

“Maybe it will help to think of it this way. Let’s say you have a disease. You live every day in pain, suffering, even in your sleep. You could be in this kind of pain for the rest of your life. No way to numb it. This is not a bearable pain. It’s the unbearable kind. The kind that makes people want to pull their own abscessed tooth.”
― Julie Cantrell, The Feathered Bone