The Sixth Wicked Child Quotes

“Forget your eyes—sight is a deceitful mistress—it’s only when you trust your other senses equally that you truly learn to see.”
― J.D. Barker, The Sixth Wicked Child

“Me encontré con que era muy guapa.
“Eso lo puedo reconocer ahora, aunque no creo que padre estuviese complacido. Él diría que su belleza me nublaba el juicio. Hace ya varios años que me dijo que la belleza tenía la costumbre de vaciar de sangre el cerebro, y que la razón se iba con ella. “¿Por qué intentó cruzar el hombre la carretera? -me preguntó él-. Para llegar hasta una mujer guapa -respondió él mismo antes de que yo pudiera contestarle-”
― J.D. Barker, The Sixth Wicked Child

“You can bury a bad thing, but those bad things have a tendency to claw their way back out of the dirt.”
― J.D. Barker, The Sixth Wicked Child

“The people we are in public aren’t the people we are behind closed doors.”
― J.D. Barker, The Sixth Wicked Child

“Beauty has started many wars, but it has yet to end one. Beauty has a taste unlike any other. It’s the sweetest of poisons. You’ll crave more even as it snatches the life from you.”
― J.D. Barker, The Sixth Wicked Child

“You can’t play God without being acquainted with the devil.”
― J.D. Barker, The Sixth Wicked Child