Revelator Quotes

“Stella had learned to do a passable impersonation of a normal person, but she couldn’t keep it up for long.”
― Daryl Gregory, Revelator

“Nobody thought of themselves as a hillbilly, but they liked knowing they were out there somewhere, like the buffalo.”
― Daryl Gregory, Revelator

“This was a southern home, and even blood enemies wouldn’t draw swords before coffee and corn bread.”
― Daryl Gregory, Revelator

“White southerners feasted on nostalgia, even the manufactured kind.”
― Daryl Gregory, Revelator

“That was the thing about the funeral process; by the time you buried someone, days after their death, the body looked so little like the person you knew that it had become something else: remains. It was a gift, really. A necessary distancing. It felt immoral to put a loved one underground, but to bury some husk they’d left behind? No problem. It’s easy to throw out leftovers.”
― Daryl Gregory, Revelator

“It was the idea of these people thinking of her when she wasn't around. Having ideas about her, probably picturing her face as she unwrapped the present. It was intrusive. It didn't matter that it was an attack of love, it was still an ambush.”
― Daryl Gregory, Revelator

“Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.”
― Daryl Gregory, Revelator

“Sunny don’t hate you. She don’t know you.” “Those’re the easiest people to hate.”
― Daryl Gregory, Revelator

“A lick of cold touched her face.”
― Daryl Gregory, Revelator