The Gifts That Bind Us Quotes

“Turning people against one another is a very good distraction technique while you accumulate power.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, The Gifts That Bind Us

“Everyone who craves power once had none.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, The Gifts That Bind Us

“But if you want to change how someone thinks, you have to know how they think and why they think it.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, The Gifts That Bind Us

“What follows is the strangest forty minutes I have ever spent at St. Bernadette’s, and I was once locked in a cupboard for an entire afternoon with a deck of cursed tarot cards.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, The Gifts That Bind Us

“She talks like people do in old films. A voice that sounds like garden parties and French windows being flung open. A voice you can imagine saying, You simply must.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, The Gifts That Bind Us

“If the girls weren't here, I'd wrap my arms around him. If the girls weren't here, I'd tell him that there's not a single horrible thing about him. That he is calmer and kinder than anyone I've ever met. That he has taken the best traits I associate with each gender and made a cocktail of them all. The deepest parts of chivalry. The oldest kind of beauty.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, The Gifts That Bind Us