Windwood Farm Quotes

“She might not have enjoyed genealogy like they did, she wasn’t even sure who her great grandparents were (to this group’s horror) but they could all agree that there ought to be an organization like PETA for the ethical treatment of old homes and structures.”
― Rebecca Patrick-Howard, Windwood Farm

“When mirrors are facing one another, it's suppose to open the door to the spirit world.”
― Rebecca Patrick-Howard, Windwood Farm

“That happened sometimes. Not often, but tuberculosis sometimes acted like other things. Folks get scared, hide it, pretend like nothing was wrong. Be faint and weak and sick until they couldn’t hide it any longer and then there wasn’t nothing to do but die.”
― Rebecca Patrick-Howard, Windwood Farm

“My friends have gone out there and tried to see the ghosts. Some of them have seen and heard things, but I never messed around with it. My mama always told me that you don't do that. That you might bring something home with you if you do. And my mama didn't raise no fool.”
― Rebecca Patrick-Howard, Windwood Farm

“But the whole place just feels sad, you know? Like you want to cry right along with it.”
― Rebecca Patrick-Howard, Windwood Farm

“She had just turned thirty, but she’d learned a long time ago that not everyone shared her sentiments when it came to inanimate objects.”
― Rebecca Patrick-Howard, Windwood Farm

“I have memorized his every move, his texture, his skin, his hair, his fingernails. I can breathe him. I think, in a blackened room without any sound, I would still know he was there.”
― Rebecca Patrick-Howard, Windwood Farm

“She imagined buildings had memories and feelings and held onto them the same way people did, although this wasn’t something she normally shared with people she didn’t know (or most she did). Most people might find this romanticism a little nutty. She had just turned thirty, but she’d learned a long time ago that not everyone shared her sentiments when it came to inanimate objects.”
― Rebecca Patrick-Howard, Windwood Farm