Otherwood Quotes

“we live in different worlds, different realities”
― Pete Hautman, Otherwood

“The dead live in our memories.”
― Pete Hautman, Otherwood

“I suppose if we forgot stuff we’ll never know we forgot it, because we won’t remember”
― Pete Hautman, Otherwood

“I’ll show you.” He ran upstairs and got the notebook. “It’s Gramps’s Book of Secrets.”
― Pete Hautman, Otherwood

“heck,”
― Pete Hautman, Otherwood

“Elly’s eyes were huge and her mouth was open and she was clutching her hands over her chest. Her mouth was moving but he couldn’t hear what she was saying. She looked weirdly pale, even her clothes. “Elly?” She held out her hands. As she was about to touch him, her fingers became foggy tendrils. He could see right through her, as if she had turned to mist. “Elly?” he said. He reached out for her, but she was gone.”
― Pete Hautman, Otherwood

“We live in different worlds, different realities,”
― Pete Hautman, Otherwood

“- “Do You know what ghosts are, Stuey? I’ll tell you. They’re secrets haunting the memories of the living. So long as we carry their secrets, they refuse to leave. They wait.” “Wait for what?” “To be forgotten. My father has been gone for sixty years, but” — he tapped the side of his head — “he’s still here. He never left.”
― Pete Hautman, Otherwood

“is reality simply a dream we share?”
― Pete Hautman, Otherwood

“figuring out was is real isn’t always possible, because our own brains are telling us stories”
― Pete Hautman, Otherwood