Eve Chase > Quotes

“I think adults must get sort of worn away over time, like rocks out at sea, but remain who they are, just slower and grayer with those funny vertical wrinkles in front of their ears. But the young are a different shape from one week to the next. To know us is to run alongside us, like someone trying to shout through the window of a moving train.”
― Eve Chase, Black Rabbit Hall

“Houses are never just houses. I'm quite sure of this now. We leave particles behind, dust and dreams, fingerprints buried on wallpapers, our tread in the wear of the stairs. And we take bits of the houses with us. [...] We grow up. We stay the same. We move away, but we live forever where we were most alive.”
― Eve Chase, The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde

“If you live in the past, you're only living half a life”
― Eve Chase, Black Rabbit Hall

“...too often it's only children and old people who speak the truth. You just have to slow down and listen.”
― Eve Chase, Black Rabbit Hall

“Ghosts are everywhere, not just the ghost of Momma in the woods, but ghosts of us too, what we used to be like in those long summers.”
― Eve Chase, Black Rabbit Hall

“Don’t be silly. One is never too old for sandcastles.”
― Eve Chase, Black Rabbit Hall

“Every girl needs Paris.”
― Eve Chase, The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde

“I wonder if we're only our true selves as children, before life starts to go wrong.”
― Eve Chase, The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde

“I've discovered that life doesn't always turn on the obvious things - people dying, marriages, all the stuff that gets carved on the tombstones - but little unrecorded things too.”
― Eve Chase

“Her judgemental younger self has no idea that she will have a daughter too one day, and that the thought of her little girl ever leaving home will make her feel like weeping.”
― Eve Chase, The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde

“We may not have a new roof by then. But we will have flowers. Far more important, wouldn't you agree?”
― Eve Chase, The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde

“wonder then if all children just love the things that make their mothers happy. If that’s what it comes down to, really.”
― Eve Chase, Black Rabbit Hall

“Don't worry what other people think, be who you want to be.”
― Eve Chase, The Daughters of Foxcote Manor

“I’m struck with my own sheer luck in getting my mother out of all the millions of potential mothers in the world. I lost her. But I’d”
― Eve Chase, Black Rabbit Hall

“I do have a teenager, and I know that teenagers don't come with instruction manuals.”
― Eve Chase

“where the sun and moon hang like a question and an answer.”
― Eve Chase, Black Rabbit Hall

“I think if we keep the dark things shut up inside,’ she goes on, ‘they grow big. Like weeds. They smother all the flowers and block the sunlight.”
― Eve Chase, The Glass House

“Light rain releases the Christmasy smell of pine needles.”
― Eve Chase, The Daughters of Foxcote Manor

“herself,”
― Eve Chase, Black Rabbit Hall

“the little red Fiat turns off the road, then rolls like a drop of blood down the wet green drive, the canopy of trees locking tight behind them.”
― Eve Chase, Black Rabbit Hall

“Families can also be formed without blood ties. Good things really can happen.”
― Eve Chase, The Glass House

“Or maybe it's just that there is something repugnant about being old, so close to the end, and not at peace.”
― Eve Chase, Black Rabbit Hall

“But the young or a different shape from one week to the next. To know us is to run alongside us, like someone trying to shout through the window of a moving train.”
― Eve Chase, Black Rabbit Hall - Eine Familie. Ein Geheimnis. Ein Sommer, der alles verändert. -

“than”
― Eve Chase, The Birdcage

“If she is to freak out, she'll do it alone.”
― Eve Chase

“And that’s the problem with “love,” Kat thinks. It’s a reaction, a corrective, to the loves that precede it.”
― Eve Chase, The Birdcage

“Her complexion still undimmed by motherhood's broken nights.”
― Eve Chase, The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde

“A familiar feeling of being in some fundamental way wrong empties over Rita. Why did she think it a good idea to wear her dreary navy A-line skirt and flat brown shoes again?”
― Eve Chase, The Daughters of Foxcote Manor

“The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel.”
― Eve Chase, The Glass House

“walking towards them now, shadow long and leggy, the sun a tinned peach half behind him.”
― Eve Chase, Black Rabbit Hall