The Innocents Quotes

“They had all their lives been the one thing the other looked to first and last, the one article needed to feel complete whatever else was taken from them or mislaid in the dark. But each in their own way was beginning to doubt their pairing was requisite to what they might want from life.”
― Michael Crummey, The Innocents

“A body must bear what can't be helped.”
― Michael Crummey, The Innocents

“It was confounding to see magic and beauty and mystery leach out of a thing, to think it could be used up like a store of winter supplies.”
― Michael Crummey, The Innocents

“Pleasure and shame. Shame and pleasure. These were the world’s currencies. And it paid out both in equal measure.”
― Michael Crummey, The Innocents

“Her father used to say The death of a horse is the life of a crow, and Ada had never really taken in the meaning of the phrase. But she knew it in her bones now.”
― Michael Crummey, The Innocents

“It was a riddle to see a person could get what they wanted and regret it, could even regret wanting it in the first place.”
― Michael Crummey, The Innocents

“He couldn't decided whether it bothered him most to think the sailors' tale might be true or to think it was spacious in every detail and passed around as God's word regardless. The death of a horse if the life of a crow and a story was a rank scavenger from all he could tell, feeding on rumour and innuendo and naked confabulation where the truth was too nimble to chase down or too tough to chew.”
― Michael Crummey, The Innocents