Peccatum in Carne Quotes

“I doubt you would understand what it is like, to watch yourself die more and more each day, while birthing a whole new woman at the same time.”
― Coco Mingolelli, Peccatum in Carne: Sins of the Flesh

“She could sense the fear and anxiety of babies and younger children upon meeting her for the first time; their wide eyed stares, fidgeting, and outright tantrums. Blaring like little homing beacons, they knew that Mallory wore a disguise to cover her wounds, and that they probably weren't safe. They were so very innocent and unblemished from the world, and saw straight through to her heart. 

It was the real reason she preferred not to be in their company or head a classroom full of tiny ones, though she often told those who questioned her preference for teaching teenagers that she didn't like small children. 

Children hated pain. It was rare that they wouldn't shy away from an adult whose heart was laden with it.”
― Coco Mingolelli, Peccatum in Carne: Sins of the Flesh

“Sometimes I miss you the way someone drowning remembers the air. There is no small amount of pain to it, but rather an intense pain where my heart surely must have laid. There wasn't a connection to that memory before.

It was like I was missing someone that I'd never met... someone that I desperately needed to.”
― Coco Mingolelli, Peccatum in Carne: Sins of the Flesh

“I’ll always find you. You’re my little supernova. I’d perish without your light. I’m only sorry that I didn’t realize that... before I scared you away.”
― Coco Mingolelli, Peccatum in Carne: Sins of the Flesh

“One ought never laugh at their Queen, especially when that woman is their wife.”
― Coco Mingolelli, Peccatum in Carne: Sins of the Flesh

“There was a dazzling intellect beneath the girl's sadness, she was sure - and it bothered Mallory to no end that it might go wasted on the world if Dawn could not be coaxed out of her melancholy.”
― Coco Mingolelli, Peccatum in Carne: Sins of the Flesh