Silas House > Quotes

“Dogs know things. They know and know and know.”
― Silas House, Southernmost

“Easter, I don't want you to die and go to Heaven without having a little fun. The Lord forgives all things, honey. Live, sister!”
― Silas House, Clay's Quilt

“But a person can believe something so hard they lose sight of everything else.”
― Silas House, Southernmost

“If we can’t trust a few people in this world, then there’s no point at all… It’s one of the things that gets us through.”
― Silas House, Lark Ascending

“There were too many twists & turns to this story, too many oddly shaped pieces to fit into this quilt.”
― Silas House, Clay's Quilt

“He had spent his whole life listening to stories from the past and now he had his own, and it was slowly building chapter by chapter.”
― Silas House, Clay's Quilt

“Years later I would realize that this was one of the world's great problems, that people often allow themselves not to think. They choose not to think, and that’s how the whole world gets into trouble.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

“They all knew that she was serious and they all knew what she wasn’t saying—that their land was the most important thing they had besides one another.”
― Silas House, The Coal Tattoo

“It was as if I had been mute all my life and only now had discovered what words sounded like.”
― Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves

“I’d open my eyes and look out at the aching blue of the ocean–a color I had never seen in nature and that most likely only exists in the middle of the Atlantic, a gray blue like a storm cloud full of unspent lightning and unfallen rain.”
― Silas House, Lark Ascending

“Don’t you have some songs, boyo?” she asked, after one of her songs. I didn’t know any of them all the way through, but I sang the verses and choruses of all the songs we used to sing back on the Preserve: “Angel from Montgomery,” “No Hard Feelings,” “You Got Gold,” “The Story.”
― Silas House, Lark Ascending

“And if there’s one thing I know for sure it’s that you never shun somebody because you don’t agree with them. We’re ever one of us children of God.”
― Silas House, Southernmost

“I wasn’t just seasick; I was undone in sorrow.”
― Silas House, Lark Ascending

“Nobody can just let a person be.”
― Silas House, Southernmost

“somehow. Feeling like it all might be about to end. I had no idea that I stood on the hinge of my life that night, that by tomorrow everything would be completely different.”
― Silas House, Lark Ascending

“thinks. All you do is just decide to do it, and then it’s done. Instantly you feel better, like pushing aside a quilt that is too heavy for sleeping. Forgetting is the hard part.”
― Silas House, Southernmost

“It is hard to say if a place makes people a particular way or if the kind of people who congregate there shape the place.”
― Silas House, Lark Ascending

“There was nothing on yet except for the tobacco reports, so I snapped the radio back off and tried to figure out where to go.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

“Daylight is the time God moves about the best. I’ve heard people say that they liked to watch the world come awake. But the world is always awake; sunlight just makes it seeable. In that moment when light hit the mountain, when the sun cracked through the sky big enough to make a noise if our ears could hear it, I would be aware again of all the things that had been going on throughout the night. Morning just made it easier to hear. Light takes away muteness. I”
― Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves

“Despair changes the shape of a person’s mouth, the way they hold their bodies, how they look out onto the world. The eyes of the dead in a living person’s face.”
― Silas House, Lark Ascending

“He would think they were the tears of a simple woman and he’d not have the sense to see that she was crying because she was so angry.”
― Silas House, The Coal Tattoo

“A particular kind of patriotism, promises of adventure, finances. This is how boys end up soldiers.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

“She believed in not judging other people based on how they looked and in having what she called “an open mind.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

“They would catch the lightning bugs that came up out of the laurels lining the creek and then put them into mason jars or wear them as glow rings on their fingers.”
― Silas House, Clay's Quilt

“I’ll say this for her, she sticks to what she believes. But a person can believe something so hard they lose sight of everything else.”
― Silas House, Southernmost

“a moment in which we took into account everything we had, and appreciated it all, and felt blessed”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

“His man carried him. There was nothing but him and his man.”
― Silas House, Lark Ascending

“Years later I would realize that this was one of the worlds great problems, that people often allow themselves not to think. They choose not to think, and that’s how the whole world gets into trouble.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

“I like that library books have secret lives. All those hands that have held them. All those eyes that have read them. I”
― Silas House, Same Sun Here

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― Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves