The Yellow House Quotes

“Secrets are like the cancer of families. Like tumors, they grow ever larger, and if they are not removed, they suffocate the mind and spirit, and spawn madness. As long as they remain, they cast a shadow on every truth that is uttered, clouding it, constricting it, disporting it. Secrets hurt the secret keeper as much as the poor souls from whom the secret is kept. And even once the secret is out, its shadow echoes into the future, the remnants of its memory leaving us vigilant and fearful.”
― Patricia Falvey, The Yellow House

“I sometimes wonder if it’s better for the bad things to happen all at once rather than little by little, like blood seeping out of a wound. When they happen all at once, if the shock of it doesn’t kill you, you might at least stand a chance of rearing up and fighting back. But when they come on you slowly, one thing creeping after another, it wears you down so that you might as well be dead when they finally end, because you have no strength left to resist.”
― Patricia Falvey, The Yellow House

“Aye, Slieve Gullion has seen a lot of sad stories in her time,” Da said, “but she keeps all her anger locked up in that volcano at her heart. She’s beautiful on the outside but troubled deep down.” He sighed. “Just like Ireland.”
― Patricia Falvey, The Yellow House

“Your heart holds on to dreams long after your head tells you they're foolish.”
― Patricia Falvey, The Yellow House

“I sometimes wonder if it's better for the bad things to happen all at once rather than little by little, like blood seeping out of a wound. When they happen all at once, if the shock of it doesn't kill you, you might at least stand a chance of rearing up and fighting back.”
― Patricia Falvey, The Yellow House

“Indeed, it would become known far and wide as the Yellow House. When the sun shone it dazzled like a golden beacon, and even on the grayest of days it glowed through the mist like magic.”
― Patricia Falvey, The Yellow House

“As long as they remain, they cast a shadow on every truth that is uttered, clouding it, constricting it, distorting”
― Patricia Falvey, The Yellow House

“Secrets are the cancer of families.”
― Patricia Falvey, The Yellow House

“there is truth to be found no matter what the source, and we must be open to it.”
― Patricia Falvey, The Yellow House

“War is an abyss which sucks in souls both brave and desperate and spits them out again dead or disillusioned. As”
― Patricia Falvey, The Yellow House