The Household Quotes

“Home is only a memory. And she is grateful for it, because to have had it and lost it is better than never having it at all.”
― Stacey Halls, The Household

“If London has a colour, she thinks, it is brown. Paris is pale grey.”
― Stacey Halls, The Household

“But then, nothing lasts forever, other than death.”
― Stacey Halls, The Household

“It’s awful quiet here, ain’t it? All I can hear is my thoughts.”
― Stacey Halls, The Household

“The city is cruel but not heartless; it always offers a step to sit on, a secret corner to tuck oneself inside. There are thousands of people working thousands of jobs, fine parks and wide streets in which rich and poor may walk side by side. In London, a cat may look on a king.”
― Stacey Halls, The Household

“Sometimes it’s as though life is a balance sheet of who you have in your life and who you’ve lost. And very often they aren’t fairly weighted.”
― Stacey Halls, The Household

“But this sight is like a balm to her soul. She is moved by it, and knows now that witnessing love can be as nourishing as experiencing it herself.”
― Stacey Halls, The Household

“I’ve been thinking about everything that led me here, because Mr Dickens wants to know. But a fall is swift, sudden, when really it isn’t like that at all. They imagine it to be a seduction or a moment of weakness, as if we carry this precious thing in a little box on our person. But it isn’t a single thing, a single moment. It’s more like a series of little deaths. Don’t you think?”
― Stacey Halls, The Household

“Ain't it funny what shame does. They'd sooner see me sent round the world than have me home.”
― Stacey Halls, The Household

“Sounds like thieving to me. We're put in prison for taking things that ain't ours. But the Queen's men or whoever are allowed to just sail up to places and say they're theirs, and it ain't a crime? Seems more of a crime to swipe a country than a stocking, to me.”
― Stacey Halls, The Household