Quotes from Katherine Howe

God shields the souls of the innocent the best He can from the Devil's torments.

But remember. Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't real.

Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view.

She was always puzzled that people say that darkness falls. To her it seemed instead to rise, massing under trees an shrubs, pouring out from under furniture, only reaching the sky when the spaces near the ground were full.

Just because you don't believe it[] [...]doesn't mean that it's not true.

When a Girl's on a pedestal, there's nothing some people would like better than to shove her off it, just to know what kind of noise she'd make when she shattered.

In his voice resonated the timbre of a man who thinks he has convinced himself of an idea, but masks his own doubt by laboring to persuade others.

Il est bon à savoir. It is good to know.

But an attentive researcher--like you--might be able to see something that all the experts can't see. If she asks the right questions.

The philosophers stone is just an allegory. It represents everything that man wants and can never have.

Everyone has wounds as want healing. Seems like they all find me.

Mentally Connie gathered her strands of thinking into thick handfuls, trying to braid them into a coherent whole.

I was impressed. She had already mastered the art of not saying much of anything at all.

God shields the souls of the innocent the best He can from the Devil's torments.

Every memory we have changes slightly each time we think about it. We add stuff we learn in other places, or we forget stuff that doesn't seem important anymore. Or you think you remember something, like from your childhood, but actually you've just seen so many pictures of it, and your parents have told you about it, so you think you remember it, but you don't. A memory is a process. Instead of a thing. Like a story we tell ourselves that changes from the standpoint we're looking at it.

Okay, he says. They both say it, all the time. I've finally started to figure out what it means. It means "yes" and "all right". It also means less than all right, and a begrudging no. It means everything, and nothing, all at once.

Only by being present can you be happy. Too much attention to the past and the future takes the now away. And once it's gone, you never get it back.

When I looked at life through the camera, I felt like I could finally see it.

In this world, everyone is friends with everyone else. In a way.

Of course, it was a rather hard lot, to be cherished. The beloved can so easily disappoint when they inevitably prove to be human.

When she said that last part, she raised her eyebrows, or at least, I thought that's what she was trying to do. The Botox made it so all she could do was widen her eyes until they bulged.

Pizza is good medicine for disappointment.

Part of growing up is doing things you don't want to do. When it's in the best interest of someone you love.

Her fingertips stumbled over the key she'd found years ago. She liked having it. A fib for the chain. Or a talisman. A reminder that secrets can sometimes be discovered when one looks closely at ordinary things.