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“it will be okay. Go to the priest and ask him. Ask him, Will you know me? See what he says.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted

“The oldest monsters are unnamed. Unnamed monsters, Dennis learned before he even knew his own name, were the worst kind of all.”
― Rene Denfeld, Sleeping Giants

“How odd it is, that the dead weigh more than the living. You would think it would be the opposite, but it isn’t. I think it is because souls give bodies lightness and air. When the soul leaves, the body has nothing left and is desperate to return to the earth.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted

“After a time, it seemed that the world inside the books became my world. So when I thought of my childhood, it was dandelion wine and ice cream on a summer porch, like Ray Bradbury, and catching catfish with Huck Finn. My own memories receded and the book memories became the real memories, far more than the outside, far more even than in here. B”
― Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted

“Now when those dark times happen, I curl into a ball on my cot and make a cape with my blanket. I remind myself I am not dust, but I should be. I tell myself I am made of the same cells as life itself even if I am a mistake.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted

“Remember when we used to share our secrets?" he asked. The moon captured a handsome face, full of longing. His dark hair brushed his shoulders.
"The Stone," she laughed.
"I loved you then. I loved you no matter where you came from. No - scratch that." His voice floated up to her. "I loved you because you came from wherever it was. It must have been a magic place, to produce you.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“She moved with the economy and delight of a woman who had spent a lifetime in kitchens.”
― Rene Denfeld, Sleeping Giants

“In the years since, she had discovered the sacrament of life did not demand memory.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“It is usually people who pride themselves on their lack of sexism who are the first to insinuate that I box , as one woman acquaintance said, "to get male attention." That would have to be the most painful and time-consuming method to do so ever invented.”
― Rene Denfeld, Kill the Body, the Head Will Fall: A Closer Look at Women, Violence, and Aggression

“There comes a point when all the secrets are told and all that is left are their spent ghosts.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted

“The ideal of maternal instinct can act as a barrier to acquiring tool women need to cope with children. If you really love your kids, the text of public conversation to mothers reads, you won't hit them. End of discussion. Who needs tools when instincts are supposedly doing your job for you?”
― Rene Denfeld, Kill the Body, the Head Will Fall: A Closer Look at Women, Violence, and Aggression

“Not everyone likes a ceiling,â€� her mommy said. “Some of us like the sky.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“You can get a taste of an idea inside you, and the next thing you know, it won't leave. Until you do something about it.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted

“They say inchoate memory, formed before language, is the worst of all. Because it flies like bats in your bones. You cannot heal from what you cannot voice.”
― Rene Denfeld, Sleeping Giants

“People try to make names for things they don't understand.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted

“believe we can carry both the pain of the victim and the truth of the accused without doing disservice to either.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted

“That was the thing about the butterflies. They could be kind when Celia felt bitter. They could encompass all the beauty of this world even when the skies smarted gray”
― Rene Denfeld, The Butterfly Girl

“Love wasn’t about numbers, Naomi realized then. It wasn’t about selling yourself or wanting anything in return. It wasn’t about hoping for safety. It was justâ€� That purr.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“Ideas are powerful things; we should take more care with them. I know there are some who would disagree - those who think ideas are like food they can taste and then spit out if they don't like it. But ideas are stronger than that. You can get a taste of an idea inside you, and the next think you know, it won't leave. Until you do something about it”
― Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted

“Her entire life she had been running from terrifying shadows she could no longer see - and in escape she ran straight into life.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“Every day I don’t kill the woman, I admire her more.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“Naomi felt very small, hiking through this endless dark forest. Fresh snow dusted the ground.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“The land beyond rose into dizzying mountains. Far across the way a frozen waterfall resembled a charging lion. The trees were shrouded in white, a vision of the heavens.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“Her entire life she had been running from terrifying shadows she could no longer see—and in escape she ran straight into life. In the years since, she had discovered the sacrament of life did not demand memory. Like a leaf that drank from the morning dew, you didn’t question the morning sunrise or the sweet taste on your mouth. You just drank.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“If you understand what makes him tick-what is magic for him- then you can understand anyone”
― Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted

“Unfortunately many people confuse disability with defiance.”
― rene denfeld

“Deep in her secret heart, in the pure place she protects, she is afraid she will always be alone—that she will go through life without being known. And she will not survive that.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted

“Sweet as sugar. And then he hardened. I can’t ’splain it another way. He was like sugar in a jar that hardens. And after a while you take it out, and it is one rock-solid lump.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted

“I loved you then. I loved you no matter where you came from. No—scratch that.â€� His voice floated up to her. “I loved you because you came from wherever it was. It must have been a magic place, to produce you.”
― Rene Denfield

“This is something I know: no matter how far you have run, no matter how long you have been lost, it is never too late to be found.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder