Eli the Good Quotes

“Sometimes just being still is the best thing you can do for yourself.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

“I've never understood why people run to get out of the rain in the summertime... People will drive miles and miles to go jump in a cool swimming hole, but when it rains, they scatter.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

“Since that night I have come to understand that sometimes the best families of all are those we create ourselves, the people we choose to be with.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

“Strange, how such a small realization can affect everyone's life forever. In movies there is always a carefully staged moment - a big crescendo of music, close- ups of the actors' faces, the camera slowly pulling away to let all this sink in for the viewer...but, in real life, most all of the extraordinary things happen with no more loudness than a whisper.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

“Whole scenes of your life slip away forever if you don't put them down in ink.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

“Now I had seen the grief of the two strongest people I knew. And somehow, Daddy's and Edie's crying made them seem even stronger to me. It was better to cry than to suck it up and go around conjuring hate in your heart”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

“I appricated that Nell was talking to me like a grown-up, but I had no idea what she meant. Still, I could see that the words flowed together like water over a riverbed.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

“Since that night I have come to understand that sometimes the best families of all are those that we create ourselves, the people we choose to be with.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

“Later in my life I would come to understand that history books are the least reliable witnesses”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

“But in real life, most all of the extraordinary things happen with no more loudness than a whisper.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

“The thing that struck me the most about all these letters was his love for the trees.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

“Whole scenes of your life can slip away forever if you don’t put them down in ink.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

“Why I left, I don’t know. I have never found a place of more beautiful night sounds, have never found a place where I so completely belonged despite being different.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

“It was better to cry than to suck it up and go around conjuring hate in your heart.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

“But there’s not a tree in the world like the ones you grow up with. You never forget them, and the trees remember you.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

“Edie and I were both exhausted from the celebration, but also from regret, sadness, and stubbornness. Those things will wear you out, will make you feel like a ghost floating through the world.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

“Years later I would realize that this was one of the world’s great problems, that people often allow themselves not to think. They choose to not think, and that’s how the whole world gets into trouble.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

“It didn’t seem right for something like a riverbank to be kept up; wild things should be free to remain wild.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

“Ultimately reality is far worse and far better than anything that either adult or child can ever dream.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

“Listening to her, I realized that Nell was maybe the saddest person I had ever known, although she hid it. I thought maybe she was sad for the same reasons as me. Because sometimes, there was too much goodness in the world to bear.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

“Country people sure do have more stars than anybody else,” she said. “We ain’t got much, but we got the stars.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

“I hate you!” This was becoming a daily declaration in our house, and it always made my stomach hurt to hear such a thing spoken out loud. I couldn’t imagine a worse thing for one person to say to another.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

“Years later I would realize that this was one of the world's great problems, that people often allow themselves not to think. They choose not to think, and that’s how the whole world gets into trouble.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

“Years later I would realize that this was one of the worlds great problems, that people often allow themselves not to think. They choose not to think, and that’s how the whole world gets into trouble.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

“A particular kind of patriotism, promises of adventure, finances. This is how boys end up soldiers.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

“a moment in which we took into account everything we had, and appreciated it all, and felt blessed”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

“She believed in not judging other people based on how they looked and in having what she called “an open mind.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good

“There was nothing on yet except for the tobacco reports, so I snapped the radio back off and tried to figure out where to go.”
― Silas House, Eli the Good