Silas House Quotes
- Whole scenes of your life slip away forever if you don't put them down in ink.
- Writing is a supernatural thing.
- In New York, the buildings are like mountains in some ways, but they are only alive because of the people living in them. Real mountains…
- Strange, how such a small realization can affect everyone's life forever. In movies there is always a carefully staged moment - a big crescendo of…
- Because they [Americans] want to be thought of as a rich nation, they are very ashamed of this place [Appalachia] that has come to represent…
- But you cannot know a place without loving it and hating it and feeling everything in between. You cannot understand a complex people by only…
- Maybe all the secrets of life were written on the surface of leaves, waiting to be translated. If I touched them long enough, I might…
- I had always found comfort in the leaves, in their silence. They were like a parchment that holds words of wisdom. Simply holding them in…
- Sometimes just being still is the best thing you can do for yourself.
- I've never understood why people run to get out of the rain in the summertime... People will drive miles and miles to go jump in…
- I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And that every single…
- Now I had seen the grief of the two strongest people I knew. And somehow, Daddy's and Edie's crying made them seem even stronger to…
- Since that night I have come to understand that sometimes the best families of all are those we create ourselves, the people we choose to…