The Devil's Missal Quotes

“These are the stories that I must leave untold, for they are not mine to tell.”
― Cathy Dobson, The Devil's Missal

“On any sea voyage, even one as mundane as a cross-channel car ferry, it is difficult to focus on your destination until you have lost sight of the land.”
― Cathy Dobson, The Devil's Missal

“If the church believes in holy miracles then surely the reverse, the very blackest of magic phenomena, is also within the realms of the possible.”
― Cathy Dobson, The Devil's Missal

“They’re witch marks (...) They’re what people used to draw around their windows and fireplaces in the old days to stop evil getting in. But in this case, it’s likely they’re trying to stop evil from getting out.”
― Cathy Dobson, The Devil's Missal

“Use your position wisely, young man. Remember that some stories are best left untold. Other news needs to be shouted from the church steeple. Yours is a task that requires wisdom and judgement. All stories are not the same.”
― Cathy Dobson, The Devil's Missal

“Don’t give in, she urged the girl from inside her own head. Insist on your wriggly wiggly worms. Don’t let them take your story from you. If they do, you won’t ever hear it again and you’ll always have to read their books and be their little princess. Stand firm. Make them read you your wriggly wiggly worms.”
― Cathy Dobson, The Devil's Missal

“Even phantoms don’t inhabit Bruges any more. It’s as though the living are the ghouls now, the zombies. It’s so uncannily empty, silent, lifeless…”
― Cathy Dobson, The Devil's Missal

“I must speak a language that nobody else speaks. A language which was created solely for me.”
― Cathy Dobson, The Devil's Missal

“I never had any free will. My life was always dictated by other people. I’m on a conveyor belt trundling towards some pre-ordained destiny and I don’t know how to get off it.”
― Cathy Dobson, The Devil's Missal

“Why does death not come? It can only be because God still has some purpose in keeping me alive. I must still achieve something before I am permitted to leave this life. But what could it be?”
― Cathy Dobson, The Devil's Missal

“Remember that this is a man’s confession of his sins. He did not write it for the entertainment of future generations, this is a man wrestling with the devil for his own soul.”
― Cathy Dobson, The Devil's Missal

“I’m not a strong virgin any more, I’m a mighty woman. I’m no longer just the ghost of a human being, I’m solid. But how could I be real if I never cast a shadow? I need my darker side in order to be whole.”
― Cathy Dobson, The Devil's Missal