The House on 9th Line Quotes

“Each generation carried traces of those before them: their laughter, their fears, their unspoken grief. And whether they realized it or not, they passed those imprints along.”
― Aaron R.B. Bangay, The House on 9th Line: A Memoir of Grief and the End of a Family

“His death opened the floodgates for everything he had worked so hard to build to begin unravelling. What followed were lies, miscommunication, and jealousy, forces that burned through relationships between Mom and son, brother and sister, and cousins. In that sense, Papa’s death marked not only the loss of a beloved man but the slow and painful death of the family unit itself.”
― Aaron R.B. Bangay, The House on 9th Line: A Memoir of Grief and the End of a Family