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Little Heaven QUOTES

Little Heaven QUOTES

1 " Dirty stick. That’s what Sister Muriel, one of the nuns at the San Francisco Catholic Orphanage, used to call the male penis. She always made that distinction - the ‘male’ penis, as if it was necessary. "

― Nick Cutter , Little Heaven

2 " Then a delegation of blow-dried American scientists arrived. "

― Nick Cutter , Little Heaven

3 " Have you ever heard a newborn cry as it awakes from a nightmare?” the Long Walker asked. Petty was too stunned by its question to reply. “A newborn, only a few days old,” it went on. “They have nightmares, but not as you would understand. Their minds are unformed, as was your own at that age. A newborn baby can still see the world behind the world, you see? The world where my daddy lives, and me and a few others like us. They can still see us. That’s why they scream as they do. "

― Nick Cutter , Little Heaven

4 " It’s all so goddamn fragile. Your life and the thread you carry it on. And the more love you carry, the more stress you put on that thread, the better chance it will snap. But what choice do any of us have? You take on that love because to live without it is to exist as half a person. You give that love away because it is in you to give, not out of a desire for recompense. And you keep loving even when the world cracks open and reveals a black hole where all that love can get swallowed. "

― Nick Cutter , Little Heaven

5 " Fear finds a home in you. It finds the softest spots imaginable and sets up residence. "

― Nick Cutter , Little Heaven

6 " He would wonder at their fates. Such a strange path to chart. The heart pulls, the mind resists. The heart wins. It wins. Nobody can chart the shape of his or her life before that shape emerges. There is hardly any rhyme to that shape and almost no reason. And that is the grandest, the most irreducible mystery of all. "

― Nick Cutter , Little Heaven

7 " An expression crossed its face that in the embalmed moonlight could have passed for sorrow. The thing was revolted at itself for what it was—what it couldn’t help but be. But aren’t we all prisoners of our natures, deep down? "

― Nick Cutter , Little Heaven

8 " They wanted answers. Which was all people like them ever wanted. Any answers at all, so they didn’t have to think on their own. "

― Nick Cutter , Little Heaven

9 " Ebenezer was unsure that human minds were built to cope with any of . . . of what happened down there. He felt no shame thinking that, either, as he did not believe humans were built to come to grips with anything that existed beyond their conventional means of reckoning. When humans experience something that challenges their fundamental belief of the world—its reasonableness, its fixed parameters—well, their minds crimp just a bit. "

― Nick Cutter , Little Heaven

10 " Life was too damn tough on its own terms to go depriving yourself further. "

― Nick Cutter , Little Heaven

11 " You know what my sister said to me once? She said that maybe the best thing about having a child, especially a young one, was that you could love that child shamelessly. She said that you could put everything into that kid, love crazily, give everything in your heart and mind and soul over to that other person. You can’t do that for a husband or a wife, not really. The only other entity you could love that way would be God, if you’re a believer. "

― Nick Cutter , Little Heaven

12 " Amos Flesher struck her as many men of the cloth had done over the years: a bully who had learned to fight with scripture rather than his fists. "

― Nick Cutter , Little Heaven

13 " MICAH HENRY SHUGHRUE awoke into a darkness so thick it was like all nights folded together. He "

― Nick Cutter , Little Heaven

14 " It spun and capered behind her golden irises, which seemed to tick clockwise, snipping off each second. "

― Nick Cutter , Little Heaven