Home Is Where the Bodies Are Quotes

“Resentment only poisons the person who consumes it, not the one it’s intended for.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“If you’re afraid of falling, you’ll never fly. If you’re afraid of failing, you’ll never try. If you’re afraid of dying, you’ll never truly be alive.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“Sometimes you have to lose parts of yourself just to survive.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“I’m trying to say Mom as many times as I possibly can because I know I’ll never call another person that again. It’s reserved only for her. There is no replacement.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“I spent my whole life being nervous up until I realized that life happens in between the beats of our own heart, and if it thumps too fast, there’s no space for us to live.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“It’s odd. Some people never see it coming, others have a countdown, and I don’t know which is worse.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“you can only grow so much when you’re stuck in the same place”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“I love you, Mom. Thank you for having me, for raising me, for loving me, for being like the sun . . . the one thing I could always count on.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“As we age, we shed layers of ourselves, disintegrating like any other organic material, but some of us just break down faster than others.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“Money changes people the same way death does. If you don’t know how to manage every aspect of it, it’ll bring out the worst in you.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“Nothing brings people together better than death. It’s like the sound of a high-pitched whistle for a dog that has strayed from its owner. When it happens, they always come. Death reminds us that life isn’t infinite and that one day, our time will come too. We pause to listen to that reminder, to acknowledge it, to show it the respect it demands, and then we spread out into the world like pappi on a dying dandelion, waiting for it to call us again, hoping the next call will be to gather, rather than to be gathered around.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“When you chase all the wrong things, you’re bound to end up in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“It’s funny how memory works. Our brain decides what’s most important and retains it—the rest, it just lets go. Song lyrics we remember for years, decades even. Are they important? Most likely not. But they’re tied to salient moments.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“I’m not sure if he usually drinks this much or if this is out of the ordinary for him. But then again, grief is like an airport. There are no rules or social norms. You just do what you gotta do to pass the time until you reach your next destination”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“Anger is easy, Rebecca. It’s the most rudimentary of human feelings. Babies experience anger. Psychopaths experience anger. People with little to no brain activity experience anger. But compassion and forgiveness are challenging. They’re the most complex of all the emotions.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“That’s how memories are—dormant dust waiting to be stirred up.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“A half-truth is just a whole lie.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“His eyes try to meet mine, but they don’t because I’m looking right through him. It’s hard to see someone when the memory of them is stronger than the person standing directly in front of you.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“If you can control your emotions, you can control anything.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“We value the briefest moments most because they’re the ones that define us—a first kiss, a sudden death, an accident, a marriage proposal, a high . . .”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“There’s not many things you can count on in life, but that . . . is one thing you can count on. It will rise and it will fall—no matter what. Don’t matter if you’re sick or sad. Don’t matter if there is war or there is peace. Don’t matter if you see it or you don’t. That sun. You can count on it.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“The moments that change us forever always feel recent, because we carry them with us whether we want to or not.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“she and I will always be connected. It’s a bond that can never be severed, for the love between a mother and her child is infinite.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“But I think when you fall in love with a person and never fall out of love, they always look the same as how you first saw them.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“it’s important to remember both the good and the bad because together they keep us grateful and grounded.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“It doesn’t matter if I trust him. It only matters that he thinks I trust him.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“There are some things we can’t say out loud, and it’s just easier to write them down.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“But sometimes it’s the bad things in life that make us feel the most alive.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“Just because you’re a parent doesn’t mean you can’t do bad things. Ted Bundy had a daughter and so did the BTK killer. I’m sure their children told themselves, But he’s our dad. He could never . . . Anyone can do anything at any time,”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are

“I want to live in the now—even if it is dimly lit, and we’re barely scraping by. Because I know now is guaranteed, but tomorrow may never come.”
― Jeneva Rose, Home Is Where the Bodies Are