Witches on the Road Tonight Quotes

“None of her spells are planned, but come to her like snatches of poetry or a doodle on a napkin.”
― Sheri Holman, Witches on the Road Tonight

“Life must have sucked growing up without TV."

"Back then people could wait a few days to learn about all the things they couldn't control. . . Nowadays we're much more impatient for our impotence.”
― Sheri Holman, Witches on the Road Tonight

“All the Baptist churches she's ever visited smelled of the same sweat and boredom.”
― Sheri Holman, Witches on the Road Tonight

“Secrets are always hardest at the beginning. After a while they settle in like the cavities in your teeth, and you only think about them when they hurt.”
― Sheri Holman, Witches on the Road Tonight

“This is what making love must be like, she thinks. At twelve years old, she understands little more than that it will begin with loss - the loss of virginity, the loss of innocence - but that at some point there stands to be a gain.”
― Sheri Holman, Witches on the Road Tonight

“...the women are drinking and laughing inside somewhere, Wallis guesses, as manless as these men are without women.”
― Sheri Holman, Witches on the Road Tonight

“He makes her feel halfway normal by being so much further beyond her.”
― Sheri Holman, Witches on the Road Tonight

“I learned something in the years I spent among suicide bombers. . . The boys and girls who are willing to blow up their lives are not the true believers. They are the ones in agonies of doubt. There is always someone with nothing to prove who buckles the belt around them.”
― Sheri Holman, Witches on the Road Tonight

“God must feel the same at the end of a long day. Stop trying to make Me happy with all that ritual up and down, all the good works and psychic genuflecting. All the good works in the world will not bring you and closer to Me. Stand still. Let Me look at you and find Myself reflected. Maybe for a brief moment, you thought it was all about you, but surprise, Creation. It is all about Me.”
― Sheri Holman, Witches on the Road Tonight

“You don't want to be comforted, do you?" he asks, sadly. "You'd rather be guilty. You know they made up the idea of original sin not to punish but to console us. When all the incomprehensible shit goes down, we can blame ourselves, it was something we did or didn't do. Without guilt, we are irrelevant. And that is so much worse.”
― Sheri Holman, Witches on the Road Tonight

“What do women know of war? Tucker had flung at her the other day. You are never called upon to kill. Sonia slowly walks away from the small light of the kitchen, headed toward the car. No, we are never called upon, she thinks. We are merely conscripted at birth.”
― Sheri Holman, Witches on the Road Tonight

“He told me there was no past. Or should I say, that the past is always on and waiting.”
― Sheri Holman, Witches on the Road Tonight