The Last House On Needless Street Quotes
"Everything in life is a rehearsal for loss. Only the smart people know it."
"Birds are the descendants of giants. Once they ruled the earth."
"You have to move them. Don’t let anyone find out what you are."
"Blood for blood. They won’t come to the garden since the murder."
"There are bad people who would hurt you or try to take you away from me."
"All I can think is, Murder, murder, murder… Who would do this to the birds?"
"I’m only one person, and it’s not enough."
"Breaking me, then mending me, over and over—that was my mother."
"It’s good to do the recipes in case I disappear one day and there is no one left to remember them."
"Sometimes when I think about Lauren I feel almost see-through with fear, like a pane of glass."
"How could I have thought to risk all that in a world where a brouhaha could eat me in one bite?"
"It was then that I saw Him. There was a third there with us, at the heart of the flame. He didn’t look like anything I knew. He looked like everything."
"Your place is here, the LORD said to me. I have saved you for a special purpose. You have to help one another, you and he."
"I felt the fiery cord expand and enclose us in a blazing womb of light."
"What if the contents are damaged? It is the only copy that I know of."
"Dee winces. Of course, that is the kind of thing he would know about."
"My daughter’s inside, that really scared her. You ought to be more careful."
"The room is a corridor of Dee's nightmares."
"Ted comes in quickly. The locks went thunk, thunk, thunk. I was so glad to hear them."
"The man watches her watch him. He slowly pours a glass of lemonade with a shaking hand."
"I’m sorry, I said to Ted. I didn’t know."
"It’s like being tugged in different directions by slender threads."
"I think my cat is attracted to female cats."
"In the silence, I can hear Lauren crawling across the floor."
"I feel like striking the last blow in a long, long fight."
"Dee catches the clean smell of her sister's hair, and the sugar on her breath."
"The child hisses at her, an unearthly sound, and Dee gasps."
"Let’s go out for drinks," the note in the jar read.
"The little ballerina lies broken and dead in her musical coffin."
"The bed is unmade, blankets still holding the moment when they were kicked away."
"The night air seems sweet and soft, the darkening sky is wonderful."
"She raises the plywood with shaking hands. The old nails are bent, rusted and useless."
"I think I could have been a good detective, you know, like the ones on the TV because I am very observant and—"
"You’re the only one who cares about me."
"The air is cold on the shorn patches in my coat."
"I go to the living room and jump up on the bookshelf."
"The afternoon is so long, it feels like years before the sun goes down."
"I remember everything about the thing with the mouse, which is unusual."
"Mommy would say, look for the variable."
"I wonder what it’s like being a regular person—not being afraid all the time."
"I didn’t listen to it; I know what’s on there. There’s a hot feeling in my tummy. I feel good about recording over her."
"Hello? I ease out from under the couch. Where are you? I ask."
"My heart is beating really loudly. I am on the edge of something."
"He calls me kitten when I’m good—does that mean I’m a cat?"
"I like to sleep in it—the dark, the quiet."
"Once upon a time I lived with my family. I don’t recall that too well."
"I’ll tell this once and then never again."
"But hell was supposed to be full of fire, and it was very wet and cold, where I was."
"I thought it was to help Ted, but it was for Lauren."
"You’re always sorry. Always trying to make him feel better."
"I’m going to wear a skirt and pink barrettes in my hair."
"Life is a long tunnel, Olivia. The light only comes at the end."
"I am powerful and sleek, my great flanks heave. Where are you? I say. Where am I?"
"It’s too late to tell now,_ the little voice said. They’ll send you to jail."
"We have to go down,_ I say. Or we will certainly die."
"We flies silent and fast, piercing the air like an arrow."
"You don’t know what we have been through. Life is a long tunnel, Olivia."
"The little noise as the flesh parted. He really didn’t like that."
"Her skin was a gulf of flame. Ted was breathing too fast and coughing."
"We are dying, our flesh is cooling to clay."
"The birds and the foxes come, the coyotes, bears and rats. What was Dee feeds the earth."