The Book of the Unwinding Quotes

“Je pense, donc je mens. I think, therefore I lie. She heard the words in Sabine’s voice, but the thought was her own. Perhaps the only thing she truly owned in this counterfeit world.”
― J.D. Horn, The Book of the Unwinding

“There was enough going on in the everyday world to scare a body to death. She sat behind the counter at Vèvè, perusing the journal, wondering what in the hell was wrong with people. People with guns in their hands. People without love in their hearts. People who still—honest to God—thought their damned race made them innately superior to others. People who cared more about winning than even their own best interests, happy to follow red-faced religious hypocrites and fat, lying politicians through the gates of hell itself, if it meant they got to brag about beating everyone else there.”
― J.D. Horn, The Book of the Unwinding

“do you ever get bored waiting for the rest of the room to catch up with you?”
― J.D. Horn, The Book of the Unwinding

“vèvè over and over again, until she could do”
― J.D. Horn, The Book of the Unwinding

“Right or wrong, he’d have to face up to the reality that her heart came used, as-is, and without warranties”
― J.D. Horn, The Book of the Unwinding

“If he had been born out of darkness, he questioned, how could he be innocent?”
― J.D. Horn, The Book of the Unwinding

“He’s still due a bit of comeuppance, then, but karma never seems to distribute itself evenly.”
― J.D. Horn, The Book of the Unwinding

“I am the balm for your suffering”
― J.D. Horn, The Book of the Unwinding

“The dotted white line on the road maddened her. It indicated that she could change lanes at any time, but that was clearly a lie.”
― J.D. Horn, The Book of the Unwinding

“Whore. A catchall insult for any woman who won’t do as she’s told.”
― J.D. Horn, The Book of the Unwinding

“I don’t expect forgiveness. That’s too much to hope for. I was corruptible, and I was corrupted.”
― J.D. Horn, The Book of the Unwinding

“has been gone—like second-act Peggy Schuyler gone—for months.”
― J.D. Horn, The Book of the Unwinding

“A homesickness that isn’t the result of wanderlust, but is instead a reaction to abandonment, to seeing “home” ripped away.”
― J.D. Horn, The Book of the Unwinding

“I’ll always speak the truth to you,” Fleur said. “That’s the ‘bitch’ part. I’ll earn the ‘presumptuous’ by assuming you’ll always want to hear it.”
― J.D. Horn, The Book of the Unwinding

“Madness may not be the source of magic, but it is a gateway.”
― J.D. Horn, The Book of the Unwinding

“They couldn’t force her to act. But they could try torturing her until she acted willingly, if only to stop the pain.”
― J.D. Horn, The Book of the Unwinding

“They all needed the darkness Evangeline carried in her.”
― J.D. Horn, The Book of the Unwinding

“Dark of the moon.”
― J.D. Horn, The Book of the Unwinding

“Sugar could cross the barrier because, well, she was a cat. It was no accident that witches and cats had come to associate with each other.”
― J.D. Horn, The Book of the Unwinding

“Oh, sure, she’d heard that little voice in the back of her mind chattering away and clanging cymbals like a windup toy monkey, but that hadn’t stopped her.”
― J.D. Horn, The Book of the Unwinding

“A book,” Astrid said, “isn’t a book until it’s freed from the mind that carries it.”
― J.D. Horn, The Book of the Unwinding

“Can you be strong? Strong enough to let go of what you know isn’t good for you, even if it feels right? Even if it feels comforting?” He smiled and took her by the chin once more, this time making her nod. “Yes, you are,” he said. She hoped it was true.”
― J.D. Horn, The Book of the Unwinding