Maggie's Grave Quotes

“Never at night, though. Things are different at night, when the sun goes down and the spirits come out.”
― David Sodergren, Maggie's Grave

“Things were so much simpler when she was younger. Her parents had made all her decisions for her, and she didn’t have the constant threat of adulthood hovering over her shoulder.”
― David Sodergren, Maggie's Grave

“Was this parenthood? Love and fear combined into one tiny ball of unimaginable stress?”
― David Sodergren, Maggie's Grave

“Justice, aye? There was no justice. Just men with a perverse pleasure in the destruction of women’s bodies.”
― David Sodergren, Maggie's Grave

“People just drifted away like fine grains of sand on an autumn breeze.”
― David Sodergren, Maggie's Grave

“You’re better than this town,’ said Jack quietly. ‘You need to get out. All of you, before you end up like me.’ Beth smiled. ‘But then who’s gonna buy your beer?’ ‘I’ll fuckin’ drink it myself.”
― David Sodergren, Maggie's Grave

“Tap tap tap.”
― David Sodergren, Maggie's Grave

“Things are different at night, when the sun goes down and the spirits come out”
― David Sodergren, Maggie's Grave

“It struck her that modern life was people talking, talking, talking, and no one really listening.”
― David Sodergren, Maggie's Grave

“She never wanted to hurt anyone…but why were they so intent on hurting her?”
― David Sodergren, Maggie's Grave

“It struck her that modern life was people talking, talking, talking, and no one really listening. She was as guilty of it as anyone.”
― David Sodergren, Maggie's Grave

“Things are different at night, when the sun goes down and the spirits come out.”
― David Sodergren, Maggie's Grave

“There was only so much you could say to the same people every day before staleness set in.”
― David Sodergren, Maggie's Grave

“People talked, and there was nothing more suspicious to small-town minds than a woman living alone.”
― David Sodergren, Maggie's Grave

“She had read once that magic mushrooms were to blame for so-called instances of witchcraft, people hallucinating and blaming — who else? — the women. Some things never change.”
― David Sodergren, Maggie's Grave

“wandered”
― David Sodergren, Maggie's Grave

“The hand inside her squeezed his now-limp dick, harder and harder, tugging on it like it was trying to pull him into Courtney cock-first.”
― David Sodergren, Maggie's Grave

“A curse,’ she whispered, and then Maggie Wall was no more.”
― David Sodergren, Maggie's Grave

“Bind her wrists and ankles and throw her in the river. If she floats, she’s a witch. If she drowns…she’s innocent.”
― David Sodergren, Maggie's Grave

“Those cops didn’t stand a chance. You tried to warn them. True. But they didn’t listen, the same way she wouldn’t have listened had someone told her that the legend of Maggie Wall was true. It struck her that modern life was people talking, talking, talking, and no one really listening. She was as guilty of it as anyone.”
― David Sodergren, Maggie's Grave

“Once you’ve seen a witch tear a man inside out from his arsehole, you’ve seen it all.”
― David Sodergren, Maggie's Grave

“Steve coughed into his hand, but the cough was a barely disguised cry of ‘Bollocks.”
― David Sodergren, Maggie's Grave

“She reached out her trembling hand and his chubby fingers closed over her pinky. Tears came to her eyes, and she wept silently, overwhelmed with a mixture of terror and joy. Was this parenthood? Love and fear combined into one tiny ball of unimaginable stress? Probably.”
― David Sodergren, Maggie's Grave

“You look good,’ said Beth. Another lie. They came to her too easily these days. Alice pointed at the dark bags under her eyes. ‘You too could look this good on three hours sleep. I mean, I love the little guy, but last night I was up every hour to feed him. You should see the state of my nipples,’ she laughed.”
― David Sodergren, Maggie's Grave