A House at the Bottom of a Lake Quotes

“As long as nobody knew what it was, nobody could take it from her.”
― Josh Malerman, A House at the Bottom of a Lake

“What was dark but the absence of light?”
― Josh Malerman, A House at the Bottom of a Lake

“Sometimes things just got too complicated. Something unwanted was added to something wanted and blew the whole thing apart.”
― Josh Malerman, A House at the Bottom of a Lake

“Other feelings, outside forces, fears. These were the enemies of a good thing. These were the problems people faced.”
― Josh Malerman, A House at the Bottom of a Lake

“For the first time in either of their lives, they were falling in love.”
― Josh Malerman, A House at the Bottom of a Lake

“Yet, there was nothing. No images, no stories, no rumors. And with every dead-end she met, she experienced a little relief. If nobody else had a story about the house … didn’t that mean that, in a way, it still belonged to Amelia and James? And if they never talked about it with anybody else, if they forever kept their secret, wouldn’t it always remain theirs and theirs alone?”
― Josh Malerman, A House at the Bottom of a Lake

“Something unwanted was added to something wanted and blew the whole thing apart.”
― Josh Malerman, A House at the Bottom of a Lake

“Curiosity killed the cat and the snooping seventeen-year-old girl.”
― Josh Malerman, A House at the Bottom of a Lake

“And the androgynous laughter continued, too. Thick globules of sexless cheer.”
― Josh Malerman, A House at the Bottom of a Lake

“She flipped once more and her flippers struck the wall and the wall opened and Amelia gasped, within her mask,”
― Josh Malerman, A House at the Bottom of a Lake

“She’d heard of people, adults usually, intentionally turning a good thing into a bad thing. When things were going good, adults liked to ruin them. Her own mom called it a ‘self-fulfilling prophecy.’ And you did it to prove to yourself that it wasn’t so good to begin with.”
― Josh Malerman, A House at the Bottom of a Lake

“Vale a pena e ninguém nunca fez nada importante se deixando vencer pelo medo.”
― Josh Malerman, A House at the Bottom of a Lake

“Às vezes as coisas ficavam complicadas demais. Algo indesejado juntava-se a algo desejado e destruía tudo. Medo.”
― Josh Malerman, Uma Casa No Fundo de Um Lago

“Ela não queria pensar essas palavras. Queria dizê-las. Porque ninguém falaria em voz alta se estivesse com medo. Se Amelia estivesse com medo, ela não ia querer fazer som algum,”
― Josh Malerman, Uma Casa No Fundo de Um Lago

“Se você parar para pensar, fazer reparos é bem simples. As coisas têm partes definidas, sabe? Então basta começar descobrindo qual delas está quebrada.”
― Josh Malerman, Uma Casa No Fundo de Um Lago

“Amelia crouched and set the cereal on the ground beside the box of rice. She thought of James’s sperm, fanning out, a slow-mo explosion, how cool it looked,”
― Josh Malerman, A House at the Bottom of a Lake

“He looked at her. “That’s possible, right?” he asked. “I mean … underwater … people can do that?” “I think so.” Both seventeen. Both virgins. But both saying yes.”
― Josh Malerman, A House at the Bottom of a Lake

“She liked that. Taking turns in a crazy place. Sounded like … like love.”
― Josh Malerman, A House at the Bottom of a Lake