Minor Prophets Quotes

“There’s a promise men like them make that feels like the difference between an ordinary and an extraordinary life.”
― Blair Hurley, Minor Prophets

“Like her, Alder doesn’t know how to live in a world of possessions. They barely know how to possess themselves.”
― Blair Hurley, Minor Prophets

“It’s so rare for girls like them, girls expected to serve, to be allowed to want things. It’s dangerous. Girls like them have to learn to put the want away, to sigh so quietly no one else hears.”
― Blair Hurley, Minor Prophets

“Is this what fathers give their daughters? This anger so close to the bone, this vengeful love?”
― Blair Hurley, Minor Prophets

“She feels for him, watching his wife die. She wants to ask him, Have you ever stood and waited for the end of the world to come? The waiting is the worst part, until the unimaginable after. But he knows that already.”
― Blair Hurley, Minor Prophets

“It was hard, living as they did, for her to put the pieces together, and understand that the people who were supposed to protect you could also be the ones you had to prepare for and protect against.”
― Blair Hurley, Minor Prophets

“When she breathes again, the world is still there. The sighing sound of the house settling around her. Her father, her mother, her brother, their breath filling the air around her, all holding the world up.”
― Blair Hurley, Minor Prophets

“No amount of psychological insight was going to explain why people did the things they did. The devil was not a metaphor.”
― Blair Hurley, Minor Prophets

“Love in diligence, in the way people speak or don’t need to speak. It leaves Nora breathless, this charged and lonely beauty that can enter the rooms of the dying.”
― Blair Hurley, Minor Prophets

“To affirm someone’s world, that’s a powerful thing. That’s how you make them love you.”
― Blair Hurley, Minor Prophets

“Mike describes the sounds his wife made that only he knew. Coughs and tsks and rainy day humming songs. “You don’t know what you’ll miss,” he says.”
― Blair Hurley, Minor Prophets

“Her own transformation is lacking; she seems to only be herself wherever she goes.”
― Blair Hurley, Minor Prophets

“Attraction was always a threat, her body’s lies about what it needed.”
― Blair Hurley, Minor Prophets

“Her silences can fill a room, can speak like a line of verse.”
― Blair Hurley, Minor Prophets