The Good House Quotes

“I’ve spent my adult life trying to mend the mistakes I made when I was young, which is what we all do, I suppose—”
― Tananarive Due, The Good House

“You just give me one more good reason,” Angela said to the house from the road, “and when I am finished with you, I will burn you to the fucking ground. Don’t think I won’t.”
― Tananarive Due, The Good House

“If you want the truth, doctor, every day feels like a ritual punishment I have to endure before I'm allowed to die.”
― Tananarive Due, The Good House

“Her whole life, deep down, she’d suspected God never heard her or Mama at all.”
― Tananarive Due, The Good House

“She and Jesus hadn’t been on speaking terms in too long.”
― Tananarive Due, The Good House

“The smell went deep, past her walled-in thoughts, bringing Naomi’s voice to her head—To Angela Tous-saint, the strongest, smartest woman I know—and an image of Naomi’s smiling teeth that nearly knocked her from her feet. Smell could do that. Smell just took you where it wanted you to go.”
― Tananarive Due, The Good House

“Myles had been a virgin when he came with her to the heart of Gramma Marie’s woods, and she’d decided she would give him her virginity, too, that she’d kept it for him despite the four times she’d had sex already. She’d been so young before, a thirteen-year-old kid in awe of a band instructor who had pretended to be her friend, feeling grown because he offered her his beer and his dick. Angela had never told Mama or Gramma Marie about her visits to Mr. Lowe, but she knew damn well Gramma Marie would have put that SOB in jail even if Mama hadn’t been able to collect herself enough to care. With Myles, Angela had been ready to erase those times; the times that had made her feel sullied and used as soon as a minute passed and she knew better.”
― Tananarive Due, The Good House

“Days dragged on in this town like they were getting paid by the minute.”
― Tananarive Due, The Good House

“Her mother used to say that hope was nothing but a heartache that hadn’t happened yet. But Angela was still addicted to it. She had never learned how to give it up.”
― Tananarive Due, The Good House

“Well, just think of a forest floor after a wildfire’s put out. The flames are gone, the ones you can see, but the ground’s still hot because it’s smoldering underneath, buried. A poke could set it off to roaring again. Cher, worrying about that poke will follow me to my grave!”
― Tananarive Due, The Good House

“I'm in the film business remember , and if this were a movie , this is the part where the audience would be screaming for the woman to get out of the house . So that's exactly what I'm doing .”
― Tananarive Due, The Good House