Lone Women Quotes

“A home is never finished, it’s only saved from decay.”
― Victor LaValle, Lone Women

“There are two kinds of people in this world: those who live with shame, and those who die from it.”
― Victor LaValle, Lone Women

“A funny thing happens when a man thinks he has a woman's company all to himself.
He may show a face to her that he would keep hidden if there were even one more person around. He speaks from his secret self.”
― Victor LaValle, Lone Women

“The reward for sacrifice is simply more sacrifices.”
― Victor LaValle, Lone Women

“Better to have a human cause for this horror. Something that could be understood by all, explained easily, brought to justice.”
― Victor LaValle, Lone Women

“history is simple.
And the past?
The past is complicated.”
― Victor LaValle, Lone Women

“There are two kinds of people in this world: those who live with shame, and those who die from it. Could there be a third kind of person? she wondered. One who overcomes the shame?”
― Victor LaValle, Lone Women

“And if they blamed themselves, or considered themselves cursed in some way, they never spoke of it. They never spoke of it. They never spoke of it.”
― Victor Lavalle, Lone Women

“This woman. Will we see her recorded as a brave soldier in their war? Or will she risk being forgotten? We can do our part. We can remember her. History is simple, but the past is complicated. I, for one, embrace the complications.”
― Victor LaValle, Lone Women

“Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.” —Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon”
― Victor LaValle, Lone Women

“A woman is a mule.”
― Victor LaValle, Lone Women

“On Tuesday, Adelaide Henry had been a farmer. On Wednesday, she became a fugitive.”
― Victor LaValle, Lone Women

“Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Victor LaValle, Lone Women

“As vast as the land could seem, it shrank in comparison to all that he—that anyone—kept within.”
― Victor LaValle, Lone Women

“She seemed like a woman who had never been told to shrink.”
― Victor LaValle, Lone Women

“There are two kinds of people in this world: those who live with shame, and those who die from it.

The past is complicated.”
― Victor LaValle, Lone Women

“That meant a great deal. There were more easy days on the plains than there were compliments on Grace’s mothering.”
― Victor LaValle, Lone Women

“Trust flowed between them like a current.”
― Victor LaValle, Lone Women

“This land overpowered people, but it hadn’t come to them, they had come to it. It wasn’t trying to kill them; it didn’t even notice them.”
― Victor LaValle, Lone Women

“That’s the whole point of a curse, isn’t it? You are doomed to live with it.”
― Victor LaValle, Lone Women

“She felt her tenderness like a shawl she wanted to drape across his shoulders.”
― Victor LaValle, Lone Women

“Why did this woman’s lie bother her? A guilty soul is always troubled by its reflection.”
― Victor LaValle, Lone Women

“friendship. That time when one person has revealed something essential about themselves and the other must decide if they can accept it.”
― Victor LaValle, Lone Women

“Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History, edited by Rose Fox and Daniel José Older.”
― Victor LaValle, Lone Women

“Easy to chase the past and lose the present”
― Victor LaValle, Lone Women

“They were going inside to kill Adelaide’s sister. And her sister had a name. Elizabeth. They’re going to kill Elizabeth.”
― Victor LaValle, Lone Women

“What has you so engrossed?” Mrs. Reed asked him. No answer. That’s the definition of being engrossed”
― Victor LaValle, Lone Women

“Oh, Sam,” Adelaide whispered as she rubbed her arms up and down his body. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry.” And only now did she hear what Grace had said. They threw him in the cellar. They. After a moment, who knows how many, Sam’s eyes focused on Adelaide.”
― Victor LaValle, Lone Women

“Ever since she was a child, Adelaide could grip the creature’s scales and come away unscathed.”
― Victor LaValle, Lone Women

“She had a burden that was hers to shoulder. And as the last of the Henry family, she had to carry it alone.”
― Victor LaValle, Lone Women