Welcoming the Recluse Quotes

“You’re Arek. You’re the man I love. That’s got nothing to do with what you give.”
― Nora Phoenix, Welcoming the Recluse

“I drove up the mountain with the smell of paint on my hands”
― Nora Phoenix, Welcoming the Recluse

“I painted a long”
― Nora Phoenix, Welcoming the Recluse

“Each word hit me like lightning. “You matter without being useful,” he said. “And if you don’t figure that out”
― Nora Phoenix, Welcoming the Recluse

“I didn’t know what that liking meant. It didn’t fit any of the categories I had. It was its own thing”
― Nora Phoenix, Welcoming the Recluse

“For the first time in eighteen months”
― Nora Phoenix, Welcoming the Recluse

“I’ve been committed since you painted my porch, probably even before that. A house just gives it an address.”
― Nora Phoenix, Welcoming the Recluse

“You matter without being useful. Like it was the simplest truth in the world.”
― Nora Phoenix, Welcoming the Recluse

“The simple act of feeding another person, of watching him enjoy something I’d prepared, reached into a part of me that had been dark for a long time.”
― Nora Phoenix, Welcoming the Recluse