House of Secrets Quotes

“He had the face of a God, or a demon, a face that could convince just about anyone to commit just about any sin.”
― M.E. Evans, House of Secrets

“But I was so exhausted–not in a sleep-deprived way, but worse, like I was tired in my soul.”
― M.E. Evans, House of Secrets

“There’s No Place Like Home,” an oil painting of a woman sprawled out on the floor, half of her painted brown, the other half white, with each half of her body in a differently decorated room. One half was a traditional British home, the other half a Persian one with ornate carpets and gold details glittering on the shelves. Catholic symbols mixed with the elements of nature. Mixed. A dichotomy of two colliding worlds, two pieces of a whole.”
― M.E. Evans, House of Secrets

“Of course this is when I’d run into him, with my undies full of wadded toilet paper, my face pale and twisted in pain, looking like a goblin who just raided a period trove and was running off to hoard it.”
― M.E. Evans, House of Secrets

“At only thirty-five, I felt somewhere around nine hundred.”
― M.E. Evans, House of Secrets

“It was this love that allowed me to push through the unyielding exhaustion each day, hour after hour–picking up around the house, packing organic lunches, stumbling through meltdowns and backtalk. The endless appointments, and endless worrying, and cooking, and cleaning, and baths, and battles–over, and over, and over.”
― M.E. Evans, House of Secrets