“Anyway the trick to life is, if you don’t like what is happening, go back to sleep until it stops.”
―
Catriona Ward,
The Last House on Needless Street
“The young feel pain intensely, I think, because they don’t know yet how deep it can go.” ― Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street
“Everything in life is a rehearsal for loss. Only the smart people know it.” ― Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street
“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.” ― Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street
“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.” ― Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street
“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.” ― Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street
“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.” ― Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street
“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.” ― Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street
“Kids are mirrors, reflecting back everything that happens to them. You’ve got to make sure they’re surrounded by good things.” ― Catriona Ward, Sundial
“Thoughts are a door that the dead walk through.” ― Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street
“When people say something is “unthinkable,” what they usually mean is that they don’t want to think it. They are resistant to an idea. But that is not what unthinkable means. I understand that, now. It means to be confronted with a thought so vast, dark, and monstrous that it will not fit into any known shapes in your mind. It is poison and madness flowering behind your eyes.” ― Catriona Ward, Sundial
“I don’t recall names but I have my ways of judging and remembering people. The first one is: would they be kind to my cat?” ― Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street
“I don't know what it's like for other people, but love and nausea are often indistinguishable to me” ― Catriona Ward, Sundial
“I had always felt that there was something wrong with me. I was like one of the tracings I did on her baking paper, a bad one, where the comic book underneath slipped; the lines slewed across the page, and the picture became a monstrous version of itself.” ― Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street
“I think I would do OK in prison, because I like small enclosed spaces and being alone.” ― Catriona Ward, Sundial
“There’s a monster inside each of us,’ he says. 'If you let yours out, Ted, it might not eat you.” ― Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street
“It’s possible to feel the horror of something and to accept it all at the same time. How else could we cope with being alive?” ― Catriona Ward, Sundial
“Clocks are everywhere if you know how to recognize them. A dandelion is a clock, obviously. Rice pouring into a bowl is a clock, each grain marking the passage of time. A school assignment, an apple as it withers, a tree waiting for spring. Each of these things measures living moments, what remains before death. Tick, tock.” ― Catriona Ward, Sundial
“The past always has its hands around your neck, doesn't it?” ― Catriona Ward, Sundial
“The young feel pain intensely, I think, because they don’t know yet how deep it can go.” ― Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street
“Everything in life is a rehearsal for loss. Only the smart people know it.” ― Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street
“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.” ― Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street
“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.” ― Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street
“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.” ― Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street
“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.” ― Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street
“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.” ― Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street
“Kids are mirrors, reflecting back everything that happens to them. You’ve got to make sure they’re surrounded by good things.” ― Catriona Ward, Sundial
“Thoughts are a door that the dead walk through.” ― Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street
“When people say something is “unthinkable,” what they usually mean is that they don’t want to think it. They are resistant to an idea. But that is not what unthinkable means. I understand that, now. It means to be confronted with a thought so vast, dark, and monstrous that it will not fit into any known shapes in your mind. It is poison and madness flowering behind your eyes.” ― Catriona Ward, Sundial
“I don’t recall names but I have my ways of judging and remembering people. The first one is: would they be kind to my cat?” ― Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street
“I don't know what it's like for other people, but love and nausea are often indistinguishable to me” ― Catriona Ward, Sundial
“I had always felt that there was something wrong with me. I was like one of the tracings I did on her baking paper, a bad one, where the comic book underneath slipped; the lines slewed across the page, and the picture became a monstrous version of itself.” ― Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street
“I think I would do OK in prison, because I like small enclosed spaces and being alone.” ― Catriona Ward, Sundial
“There’s a monster inside each of us,’ he says. 'If you let yours out, Ted, it might not eat you.” ― Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street
“It’s possible to feel the horror of something and to accept it all at the same time. How else could we cope with being alive?” ― Catriona Ward, Sundial
“Clocks are everywhere if you know how to recognize them. A dandelion is a clock, obviously. Rice pouring into a bowl is a clock, each grain marking the passage of time. A school assignment, an apple as it withers, a tree waiting for spring. Each of these things measures living moments, what remains before death. Tick, tock.” ― Catriona Ward, Sundial
“The past always has its hands around your neck, doesn't it?” ― Catriona Ward, Sundial
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