Lark Ascending Quotes

“…as long as there were still cedar trees and dogs, I reckoned I had a reason to keep going.”
― Silas House, Lark Ascending

“There was some comfort in knowing that, although the world was being torn in two, there were still remarkable things that went on being, that refused to lose their shine. Some days it was only the wonder that kept us going.”
― Silas House, Lark Ascending

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
― Silas House, Lark Ascending

“Zealots are always ready to take over. No one ever thought it could happen here, but we were overestimating human beings. Turns out it’s easy to convert more people to a cause that takes power from others, that thrives on meanness.”
― Silas House, Lark Ascending

“There is an animal in all of us who knows how to survive.”
― Silas House, Lark Ascending

“There is strength in numbers, but there is danger in it as well. Danger of one desiring a rise to power. Danger of many being blinded by one and doing his bidding.”
― Silas House, Lark Ascending

“I waited for hours, until the day bloomed and eased itself over the sea.”
― Silas House, Lark Ascending

“The world became smaller, yet louder.”
― Silas House, Lark Ascending

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

“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

“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

“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

“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 is always someone who must rise to power, after all.”
― 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

“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

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