The House by the Lake Quotes

“best things in life are mad, you know, darling. Instinctive,” he said. “You don’t understand that yet . . . but, in time, you will. That’s where the magic lies. And that, my darling, is what you are lacking in your life.” “What?”
― Ella Carey, The House by the Lake

“My parents want me to go to the Nuremberg rallies. I think that at least I should go and hear Hitler speak. Does that make sense, Isabelle?” She”
― Ella Carey, The House by the Lake

“creep into her thoughts. Once she had checked into the hotel and”
― Ella Carey, The House by the Lake

“She had read that the government was Nazifying schools, that there was going to be only one religion permitted in Germany.”
― Ella Carey, The House by the Lake

“Hitler promises that the nervous years have ended, that with him, the German way of life will be determined for the next thousand years. He promises national health care, government schooling, partnerships between the government and businesses. He says he will inject government funds into social welfare and the industrial sector, as well as the military.”
― Ella Carey, The House by the Lake

“up here”
― Ella Carey, The House by the Lake

“apartment,”
― Ella Carey, The House by the Lake

“All we have left of the past are remnants in our minds, Anna, and all we can do is look at them sometimes, every now and then. Take them out, dust them, turn them over in our hands until we must return, full circle, to the present. And when we are back here, we try to live our lives as best we can—again.”
― Ella Carey, The House by the Lake

“her mind was still picking away like a hen at a patch of plain dirt.”
― Ella Carey, The House by the Lake

“It all seemed so useless. Power? Money? Conquering others? What was the use of those things to anyone? What about freedom, tolerance, respect, and opportunity? When”
― Ella Carey, The House by the Lake

“was giving them a”
― Ella Carey, The House by the Lake

“Treaty of Versailles. And”
― Ella Carey, The House by the Lake

“Hitler promises that the nervous years have ended, that with him, the German way of life will be determined for the next thousand years. He promises national health care, government schooling, partnerships between the government and businesses. He says he will inject government funds into social welfare and the industrial sector, as well as the military. And he says that he will not bring war to Europe, that the only way it would happen would be if the Communists began a conflict. He says he will protect us and our need for peace—he will bring us out of our deep national crisis. We need strength.”
― Ella Carey, The House by the Lake

“nervous. If she calculated the number of beaus’ families who had rejected her, she would resign herself to becoming a governess. What alternative did she have? She had to do something with her life, but it seemed that she had little control over any”
― Ella Carey, The House by the Lake

“happening. She couldn’t avoid it. Something bigger than anything that she had felt for years, no matter how she looked at it. And that something else was life—it was the will to embrace life in all its gloriousness.”
― Ella Carey, The House by the Lake

“regret is the saddest thing we can have in this life.”
― Ella Carey, The House by the Lake