Sefira and Other Betrayals Quotes

“Yes, but—I don’t believe in the Devil. Or God—any of it.” “What difference does that make to me?”
― John Langan, Sefira and Other Betrayals

“When a storm is at its peak, and the world outside seems on the verge of tearing itself apart, a kind of radical openness comes briefly into view, as if, with each blanching of the view out the front window, something else, a more essential state of existence, draws that much closer to being unveiled.”
― John Langan, Sefira and Other Betrayals

“Freed of the fog of daily existence, with its duties, doubts, and distractions, situations that appeared fraught, ambiguous, turn out to have been all along straightforward.”
― John Langan, Sefira and Other Betrayals

“The dread, blank as water, was that she had not yet heard the worst of Victoria's story, a groundless anxiety that, the instant she recognized it, she knew was true.”
― John Langan, Sefira and Other Betrayals

“Tempting to say she had been in shock, but shock wasn’t close: shock was a small town she had left in the rearview mirror a thousand miles ago.”
― John Langan, Sefira and Other Betrayals

“Usually, it takes someone else to say to me, “Well, you realize that you were writing about X,” whereupon I stroke my beard thoughtfully and say, “Yes, that’s right.”
― John Langan, Sefira and Other Betrayals