The Wise and the Wicked Quotes

“Surely a story still meant something, even after it had ended.”
― Rebecca Podos, The Wise and the Wicked

“Instead, she stared at the toes of her mother’s boots and tried to feel hatred. Mostly, she felt tired.”
― Rebecca Podos, The Wise and the Wicked

“I am miserable and joyful and in such pain, and I am becoming who I am meant to be. Above all, I am in love. I have been waiting my whole long, short life to feel a love like this”
― Rebecca Podos, The Wise and the Wicked

“But I left everything I loved and everyone who loved me and I learned how big and strange the word really is. You’d be amazed.”
― Rebecca Podos, The Wise and the Wicked

“This is a story,” she’d say every night in their childhood bedroom, “but it is also true.”
― Rebecca Podos, The Wise and the Wicked

“That was good. Ruby wanted Cece to believe her. She wanted to believe herself, too.”
― Rebecca Podos, The Wise and the Wicked

“You’re a kid, Ruby. You think a small, happy life is this terrible, wasted thing, like I did. But you’ll grow up. You’ll learn too.”
― Rebecca Podos, The Wise and the Wicked

“Stop it, okay, you guys? We can’t talk about this now. Any of it. Everybody’s sad tonight. Everyone’s scared. Let’s just keep it together.”
― Rebecca Podos, The Wise and the Wicked

“But they left their greatest secrets behind, and by the time they’d crossed the ocean, they had become shadows of themselves, believing it better to be small and safe than strong and hunted.”
― Rebecca Podos, The Wise and the Wicked

“Ruby felt anxious all the time, her muscles tight and her brain cranked up to eleven. So tonight, she’d chosen comfort over adventure.”
― Rebecca Podos, The Wise and the Wicked

“I will visit, and we will speak of our childhoods, and drink tea to help us remember the best and oldest of times.”
― Rebecca Podos, The Wise and the Wicked

“I sell tea to Americans, promising them better health, calmer sleep, peaceful hearts.”
― Rebecca Podos, The Wise and the Wicked