The Curses Quotes

“no, here at Bishop Saint James, you have the opportunity to learn how to be the absolute best person you can be. You could do far worse than to examine your fears for behaviors you think you could adopt. Think of it as a personal development project. Study the way they dress, the way they talk and interact with one another. I promise you it isn’t so hard. It’s not as if they are foreigners murdering away in another language, now, is it?”
Do you think that is something you can do? He asked me
I-beam that him. Absolutely
Really he said his eyebrows raised, and his flashy lips tapped into a smile.
Totally, sir. Some of the greatest thinkers in history have said the exact same thing as you. Tick Hitler, for instance. I mean, he was really onto something, wasn’t he? No, no, I’m serious. I mean, yes, OK, he was a genocidal maniac, and yes, OK, he decimated entire populations of people and fucked up The world for generations. I mean, he took it too far, but he had the right idea, didn’t he? Let’s make everyone the same. Because that’s how it starts, with people like you, being terrified of anything that isn’t like you.”
― Laure Eve, The Curses

“She was a glacier buckling in the heat. Great slabs of her cracking and falling off with awful crashes. ‘You scared me shitless.”
― Laure Eve, The Curses