Hillary Jordan Quotes

A bruised silence descended on the van.

The truth isn't so simple. Death may be inevitable, but love is not. Love, you have to choose.

She reached out and stroked my hair just as she had when I was a child. I closed my eyes and let sleep take me, feeling utterly safe.

[He] had a hole in his soul, the kind the devil loves to find. It's like an open doorway for him, lets him enter in and do his wicked work.

With the cruel natural order that had made me simultaneously undesirable to men and unable to feel complete without one.

There's a whole lot of evil in the world looks pretty on the outside.

That's what it is to love someone: to give whatever you can while taking what you must.

It wasn't just that he loved her; it was that he loved her, in particular.

Death may be inevitable, but love is not. Love, you have to choose. I'll begin with that. With Love.

She prayed for that all through the night, uncertain to Whom or what, but with a feeling that almost resembled faith.

It wasn't her fault if she seemed less than human, it was the fault of them that did this to her, and them that didn't raise a voice against it.

What we can't speak, we say in silence.

Something bad happen to a child, you can be sure his daddy gone be off somewhere else.

To be touched with love was a kind of miracle.

I figure if there is a God, She's good and surged right now about the state of things down here.

Sometimes it's necessary to do wrong. Sometimes it's the only way to make things right.

Henry was wholly preoccupied with the farm. I would have gotten more notice from him if I'd grown a tail and started to bray.

This was the truth at the core of my existence: this yawning emptiness, scantily clad in rage. It had been there all along.

How could predetermination and free will both exist? "It's

You got to go along to get along.

She'd crossed into a place where truth, even if it was brutal, was all she had to offer.

I knew their kind: locked in the imagined glory of the past, scared of losing what they thought was theirs.

Florence may have sensed something, but I had no idea of what I was setting in motion the day I gave Ronsel Jackson a lift from town.