Small Miracles Quotes

“There are small lives being lived, and small triumphs being had, and small people enjoying their favourite red velvet cupcakes. And all of those small things still have meaning, even if they someday have to end.
- Gadriel”
― Olivia Atwater, Small Miracles

“...plenty of people claim they love someone because they get the warm fuzzies around them-but love is something you do. Quite often, it's something you choose.”
― Olivia Atwater, Small Miracles

“Just as God created the platypus out of spare parts, Lucifer created the original chihuahua out of spare spite…one would be hard-pressed to find a more concentrated form of evil that the average chihuahua”
― Olivia Atwater, Small Miracles

“Believe me, plenty of people claim they love someone because they get the warm fuzzies around them - but love is something you do. Quite often, it's something you choose.”
― Olivia Atwater, Small Miracles

“Whash is this?" the Third Calamity demanded in a horrified gurgle.

"That is the terrifying vengeance of a very angry lesbian atheist," Gadriel said.”
― Olivia Atwater, Small Miracles

“The sight sparked an old, weary sadness in Gadriel's chest. There's enough misery out here already, she thought. What sort of creature takes pleasure in adding to it?”
― Olivia Atwater, Small Miracles

“Gadriel sighed. “I’ve been avoiding it too,” she said. “I’m a champion avoider at this point. I use the small pleasures as distractions, to help me forget all of the things I miss.” Her eyes welled up with tears. “It mostly works, you know. But only when I don’t look too closely.”
― Olivia Atwater, Small Miracles

“But creation wasn’t made just to despair, Wormwood. There’s an awful lot that’s still going to happen between now and that last, dreadful moment. There are small lives being lived, and small triumphs being had, and small people enjoying their favourite red velvet cupcakes. And all of those small things still have meaning, even if they someday have to end.”
― Olivia Atwater, Small Miracles

“Beatrix slumped even further in her chair. “Mum doesn’t listen to anyone,” she said. “She’s proud of being that way. She has all of these followers online, and she’s always telling them that the only way to be exceptional is to never accept no for an answer.” She paused and drew in a shaky breath, as though preparing herself to say something truly egregious. “She calls herself ‘An American Mama Bear In London’.”
― Olivia Atwater, Small Miracles