All the Bad Apples
Moïra Fowley-Doyle
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Runaway Queer Kids Become Victims of Remote Cottage Chainsaw Killer, Surprising Absolutely No One.’ ‘I’m not queer,’ Ida said. ‘Sorry.’ ‘Then chances are you’ll be the only one left alive.”
“Some love ignite like forest fires, burn down entire towns before anybody’s noticed.”
“You won’t see us in the photographs. The history books. But the landscape remembers.”
“Do you think we carry them with us?’’ I asked. ‘’All the stories of the past?”
“They survived on the bare bones of hope.”
“There were silhouettes of girls holding hands on a couple of the covers, and on one - a shiny, hardback American edition - two girls kissing. I shook my head at the audacity of my sister, at my own embarrassment, at the sheer perfection of both her timing and her gift. From Tipping the Velvet to Cameron Post, an entire library of girls like me.”
“Mary Ellen was also a woman of logic. But her logic dictated that if all evidence seemed to point to magic, then it would be unwise, logically to discount it.”
“They didn't keep records, and those they did were destroyed when the first investigations into abuse were called for. They didn't want people knowing what went on here. They didn't want the numbers getting out. The babies were sold to rich couples in America. The illegal adoptions. The deaths.”
“There’s great power in sharing stories. In connecting. In speaking truths.”
“The history of this country is tied to the roots of our family tree. I need you to know this. She needs you to know this. They all do.”
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Book Keywords:
logic, love, stories, history, magic, hope, power, past
