Stillhouse Lake Quotes

“And that was when she had one single, awful realization. It’s not a doll. And against all her best intentions, she began to scream and couldn’t stop.”
― Rachel Caine, Stillhouse Lake

“Guns don’t keep anyone safe. They only equal the playing field.”
― Rachel Caine, Stillhouse Lake

“But everyone runs from the monster.Everyone except the monster slayer”
― Rachel Caine, Stillhouse Lake

“But I’ve kept them safe from the wolves, at least: the most basic and important job of a parent, to keep her offspring from being eaten by predators. Even the ones I can’t see.”
― Rachel Caine, Stillhouse Lake

“You shouldn’t have to tiptoe around your own home,”
― Rachel Caine, Stillhouse Lake

“It’s the hardest lesson for someone who’s been taught guns are the answer . . . that they’re only the answer to a pure, simple, direct set of problems: killing someone. I”
― Rachel Caine, Stillhouse Lake

“I’m glad I’ve escaped a hell I had hardly even recognized when I was burning in it.”
― Rachel Caine, Stillhouse Lake

“Iced tea, in the South, is the hallmark of hospitality.”
― Rachel Caine, Stillhouse Lake

“not only do the edges not fit, they’re not even from the same damn puzzle.”
― Rachel Caine, Stillhouse Lake

“Maybe only the truly damaged can accept each other in the way we do.”
― Rachel Caine, Stillhouse Lake

“I love these kids. I love them so much it steals my breath and squeezes me flat, and at the same time, it makes me feel weightless and exalted. “I love you both,” I say.”
― Rachel Caine, Stillhouse Lake

“Never too late or too early for pancakes. If you don’t believe that, you can turn around and go, because we are never going to be friends.”
― Rachel Caine, Stillhouse Lake

“Everybody gets mean stuff on the Internet, Mom. You shouldn’t take it so seriously. Just ignore them. They’ll go away.” That, I think, is a maddening thing to say on so many levels. As if the Internet is a fantasy world, inhabited by imaginary people. As if we’re ordinary people in the first place. And most of all, it’s such a young male thing to say, this automatic assumption of safety. Women, even girls of Lanny’s age, don’t think that way. Parents don’t. Older people don’t. It reveals a certain blind, entitled ignorance to how dangerous the world really is.”
― Rachel Caine, Stillhouse Lake

“I wonder what kind of decorations Hobby Lobby sells to ornament the pages dedicated to serial killers in a scrapbook. Lanny”
― Rachel Caine, Stillhouse Lake

“Nostalgia is for normal people.”
― Rachel Caine, Stillhouse Lake

“I’m not one of those jackasses who feel the need to strap an AR15 to their back to pick up groceries; those people live in a dystopian fantasy where they’re the heroes in a world full of threats.”
― Rachel Caine, Stillhouse Lake

“Don't go all unicorns pooping rainbows on us.”
― Rachel Caine, Stillhouse Lake

“Gina’s long dead, and I don’t mourn her. I feel so distant that I wouldn’t recognize the old me if I passed her on the street. I’m glad I’ve escaped a hell I had hardly even recognized when I was burning in it. Glad that I’ve pulled the kids out, too.”
― Rachel Caine, Stillhouse Lake

“And most of all, it’s such a young male thing to say, this automatic assumption of safety. Women, even girls of Lanny’s age, don’t think that way. Parents don’t. Older people don’t. It reveals a certain blind, entitled ignorance to how dangerous the world really is.”
― Rachel Caine, Stillhouse Lake

“They’re just words,” I tell her. “From small men who are brave on the other side of a keyboard and an Internet handle. But I know how you feel.” “It’s awful,” she says in a voice that sounds more like a little girl than the adult she’s trying to be. She clears her throat and tries again. “These people are vile.” “Yes,” I say in agreement, putting my hand on her shoulder. “They’ll never care whether or not you were hurt by what they said, or even if you read it; it was all about writing it for them. It’s natural to feel afraid and violated by all this. I feel that way all the time.” “But?” My daughter knows there’s a but. “But you have the power,” I tell her. “You can turn off this computer and walk away anytime. They’re pixels on a screen.”
― Rachel Caine, Stillhouse Lake

“I want you to know that when it comes, when it all falls down, it’s your fault, you worthless, stupid bitch. I should have started with you. But I’ll finish with you, one of these days. You think I won’t touch you? I will. From the inside out.”
― Rachel Caine, Stillhouse Lake

“NBD, I know, stands for no big deal.”
― Rachel Caine, Stillhouse Lake

“We allow brushes of hands without flinching, smiles without premeditation. It feels real. It feels solid. I finally begin to feel fully human.”
― Rachel Caine, Stillhouse Lake

“What we have is real love, but real love is messy and complicated. How can it not be, with our history?”
― Rachel Caine, Stillhouse Lake

“This is a day he will remember: a good day. It’s one of those memories that will pave the way to better things for him.”
― Rachel Caine, Stillhouse Lake

“There’s nothing quite as scorching as a teenager’s contempt. It has a breathless sting, and it lingers for a very long time.”
― Rachel Caine, Stillhouse Lake

“I’m not that woman anymore. In fact, I can hardly recognize her now, that weak creature who’d submitted, pretended, smoothed over every ripple of trouble that rose.”
― Rachel Caine, Stillhouse Lake

“Normal life. Comfortable life. Not perfect, of course. Nobody had a perfect marriage, did they?”
― Rachel Caine, Stillhouse Lake

“I’d made a point of meeting our closest neighbors the first week we moved in, because it seemed like a good precaution to assess them early for threats, or as possible resources in an emergency. I don’t count the Johansens as either. They are just . . . there. Most people just take up space anyway. The whisper comes and goes in my head, and it frightens me, because I hate remembering Melvin Royal’s voice. That was nothing he’d ever said at home, ever said to me, but I’d seen the video of him saying it at the trial. He’d said it utterly casually about the women he’d torn apart.”
― Rachel Caine, Stillhouse Lake

“That’s convenient.”
― Rachel Caine, Stillhouse Lake