The Lighthouse Road Quotes

“Around midnight he'd decided there was but a single course of action: He must remove her ovaries to quell the madness.”
― Peter Geye, The Lighthouse Road

“Someday your child will be full of wants. What they'll want more than anything, whether they know it or not, is for you to cherish them.”
― Peter Geye, The Lighthouse Road

“And so he read the story of the life of Christ. He read for hours, until the first light of Christmas morning was showing on the edge of the dark sky. When finally he put the book down and laid his head back, he realized that his own sorrow and suffering were nothing next to the world's.”
― Peter Geye, The Lighthouse Road

“Odd stood out on the point, watching the distant lightning in the east, watching the moonrise in the vacuum of the leaving storm. He could feel the booming surf under his feet, vibrating up through the basalt. He could feel the weather lowering, too, behind his glass eye.”
― Peter Geye, The Lighthouse Road