The House of Long Shadows Quotes

“I brought a hand to my tightening chest and kneaded at my heart like a lump of brioche dough.”
― Ambrose Ibsen, The House of Long Shadows

“I'd seen and experienced too much now—too much for anyone to bear without gambling away a bit of sanity—and I grieved this new stage in my life.”
― Ambrose Ibsen, The House of Long Shadows

“stared”
― Ambrose Ibsen, The House of Long Shadows

“My life had been reduced to a burning candle left out in the rain, the flame bobbing and dodging and only narrowly avoiding the drop that might snuff it out for good.”
― Ambrose Ibsen, The House of Long Shadows

“That was my only option. I stood against the door in that dark room, trembling. The moonlight was so watery thin that I could hardly make out anything in my shadowed surroundings. There was a closet somewhere to my right, but I could only see it when the moonlight grew strong and was unimpeded by clouds. It felt like I was in a holding cell. There was nothing to do, nothing to see. One could only sit and await judgement. My standing in this dark room, frightened out of my wits, reminded me of the time my mother had left me locked in my bedroom with the lights out. Decades had gone by, but here I was, still the same, scared child. I was shivering in the dark just like I had that night, afraid that something would get me. I called out to my father, knowing all the while that no good would come of it. No good had come from doing so in my childhood years, either. I prayed, heathen though I was, that all of this would pass. I yearned to leave the house, and would happily forfeit any fame and fortune that might”
― Ambrose Ibsen, The House of Long Shadows