6 Quotes by Kim Smejkal

You two are bright stars in the Rabble Mob, and the Rabble Mob is family.

They hadn’t explicitly asked for help, but Celia discovered Us was funny like that—they hadn’t needed to ask.

Twin smiles from people she’d loved, who’d pushed her into four years of cold stone, lonely nights, and constant fear. She tried calling up the good times—a cuddle, a laugh—but they’d been harassed out of her, tainted by all that had come after.

You see, a plague doctor isn’t much of a doctor at all. We’re the ones left behind after all the real doctors leave. We tally the dead. We hold hands and stand sentry at bedsides. When the rest of the world flees, we become the unfortunate mask of any remaining humanity.

Everyone’s breaking was inevitable. Shouldn’t he, above all, understand that best?

I’m baffled why you’re so keen to make me your enemy. I’m a wonderful actor; if that’s the role you cast for me, I’ll perform. But it doesn’t have to be so.” She heard, Your move, devil.