Quotes by : Kelsey Brickl

The ground had opened up and spit out hell, Nell thought, and the detritus was Shiloh.

He was an indecent man, I told myself - prayerfully - and then I prayed for him to become decent.

Youth is as easily wasted as a fine wine consumed by a drunken man. There is no poetry in aging, and....

She was an afterthought, little Martha. She was treated the way many families treated pet dogs - she....

In August, an inescapable blanket of heat settled over Paducah, the last gasping breath of summer roaring....

It was a tribute to Raphael that lesser artists wanted to copy his work, but this… this was a travesty.....

It wasn’t that Nell was weak. It was that the world was dangerous.

There was no justice in rebellion. This Javert had come to believe after seeing Marseille fall headfirst....

I was scarcely the first, nor the only current, girl of impressive derivation to be unceremoniously thrust....

When some women felt fear, they covered it with an iron grate of courage, I thought. Men might be dangerous,....