The Last House on Needless Street
Catriona Ward
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Anyway the trick to life is, if you don’t like what is happening, go back to sleep until it stops.”
“The young feel pain intensely, I think, because they don’t know yet how deep it can go.”
“Everything in life is a rehearsal for loss. Only the smart people know it.”
“How many times can someone bend before they break forever? You have to take care, dealing with broken things; sometimes they give way, and break others in their turn.”
“Thoughts are a door that the dead walk through.”
“The first thing I hate is called a Russian doll. It holds a smaller version of itself inside it, and another inside that and so on. How awful. They are prisoners. I imagine them all screaming in the dark, unable to move or speak. The doll’s face is broad and blankly smiling. It looks so happy to be holding its children captive.”
“I’ll tell you a secret, kitten. Everyone feels like that sometimes. Sometimes things get bad, and you can’t see a future ahead. It’s all cloudy, like the sky on a rainy day. But life moves very fast. Things never stay the same forever, even the bad things. The clouds will blow away. They always do, I promise.”
“I like this kind of place, where you’re in between one thing and another. Hallways, waiting rooms, lobbies and so on; rooms where nothing is actually supposed to happen. It relieves a lot of pressure and lets me think.”
“I judge people two ways—on how they treat animals, and on what they like to eat. If their favorite food is some kind of salad, they are definitely a bad person. Anything with cheese, they are probably OK.”
“There’s a monster inside each of us,’ he says. 'If you let yours out, Ted, it might not eat you.”
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