184 Quotes by Victor LaValle

But a wealthy man’s reality is remade at will.

Apollo felt as if he glowed with grief, poisoned with mourning instead of radiation.

You leave a trail of breadcrumbs any wolf could follow, then act shocked when the wolf is outside your door.

If our relationships are made of many small lies, they become something larger, a prison of falsehoods.

I have my teachers who tell me what to do. I’m not quite old enough yet to be truly independent.

What lengths will people stretch to believe they’re still good?

Exactly how many men have you killed here?” Apollo said. “We’re like the police,” Cal said. “We don’t track those numbers.

I felt in danger for my life,” Mr. Howard said. “I emptied my revolver. Then I reloaded and did it again.” Tester’s.

People call us witches,” Cal said quickly. She grabbed Apollo’s hand. “But maybe what they’re really saying is that we were women who did things that seemed impossible. You remember those old stories about mothers who could lift cars when their kids were trapped underneath? I think of it like that. When you have to save the one you love, you will become someone else, something else. You will transform. The only real magic is the things we’ll do for the ones we love.