Devotion Quotes

“Thea, in all incarnations, wherever my soul has resided, I have loved you, am loving you, will love you. If the earth one day burns out its charge, you will find me in the ash. if the sea dries, find me in its sand. Fingers forever writing your name in ash, in sand, over and over in a love-patterned wasteland.”
― Hannah Kent, Devotion

“Thea, if love were a thing, it would be the sinew of a hand stretched in anticipation of grasping. See, my hands, they reach for you. My heart is a hand reaching.”
― Hannah Kent, Devotion

“Dying is unlike living. The smooth running of time is for the beating heart only. The dead stutter. The hands on my clock do not turn to numbers but to each other.”
― Hannah Kent, Devotion

“Thea, better your face than the face of God. Better your love, better your grace.”
― Hannah Kent, Devotion

“Why do men bother with churches at all when instead they might make cathedrals out of sky and water?”
― Hannah Kent, Devotion