Shadow House Quotes

“I spun around: the room was so empty, I wasn’t even in it.”
― Stuart Land, Shadow House

“I hated involving her in this, but knew I already had, even though I was doing it now. Trying to understand all this time-altering stuff made my head spin. Maybe one day I might learn how to contact Einstein and he could answer those questions.”
― Stuart Land, Shadow House

“You should learn some manners, Ollie, but I realize Hell’s Kitchen boys were raised by their momma’s pimps and don’t know no better.”
― Stuart Land, Shadow House

“How do we end up doing whatever it is we’re doing? If people didn’t already have an affinity for a task, would they pursue it? Do people start out saying to themselves, gee, I suck at this math stuff, I guess I’ll become an astrophysicist.”
― Stuart Land, Shadow House

“All football, hockey and soccer teams would now have to wear tutus.” Brian continued. “Well, I like baseball, and we don’t have to wear tutus because we don’t beat up on each other.” “Well put, son.” I gave him the thumbs up, while picturing both dugouts racing out onto the field in pink and blue taffeta tutus as they lit into each other in a massive brawl over a bad call at first base.”
― Stuart Land, Shadow House

“Someone stood on the portico leaning on a shovel.”
― Stuart Land, Shadow House

“I’d never been one to believe in my powers of intuition. I always thought it was more like guessing and a certain amount of the time you were right, and other times, you weren’t.”
― Stuart Land, Shadow House

“I justified these pants every weekend with the reinforcing thought that one can never have enough extra pockets, just in case.”
― Stuart Land, Shadow House

“I wasn’t an indecisive person, because I could make decisions easily. Decisions making is easy when you don’t care which way the decision goes. But please, I’m not a milquetoast guy. Sometimes I’d specifically go out of my way to be stubborn just to show how manly I could be.”
― Stuart Land, Shadow House

“PJ McAvoy was downright evil. It ran in his blood and grew stronger with every hacking chain-smoking breath. I’d bet if you could see inside his veins, those corpulent white blood cells would be attacking each other out of pure spite.”
― Stuart Land, Shadow House