The Glass House Quotes

“I think if we keep the dark things shut up inside,’ she goes on, ‘they grow big. Like weeds. They smother all the flowers and block the sunlight.”
― Eve Chase, The Glass House

“Don't worry what other people think, be who you want to be.”
― Eve Chase, The Daughters of Foxcote Manor

“seat. ‘We’re escaping the grimy city for the summer,’ she says cheerily, even though she loves London in August, its fractious energy and greasy hotdog heat.”
― Eve Chase, The Glass House

“Families can also be formed without blood ties. Good things really can happen.”
― Eve Chase, The Glass House

“The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel.”
― Eve Chase, The Glass House

“I touch her hand. Her skin is silky and firm, like the white of a hard-boiled egg. Her fingers wrap around my thumb and don’t let go. “Hello, you,” I whisper.”
― Eve Chase, The Daughters of Foxcote Manor

“Light rain releases the Christmasy smell of pine needles.”
― Eve Chase, The Daughters of Foxcote Manor

“A familiar feeling of being in some fundamental way wrong empties over Rita. Why did she think it a good idea to wear her dreary navy A-line skirt and flat brown shoes again?”
― Eve Chase, The Daughters of Foxcote Manor

“The relief of her is physical and enormous.”
― Eve Chase, The Daughters of Foxcote Manor

“Aunt Edie has declared herself too clever for marriage and wears a white shirt and navy slacks and works on a newsmagazine that sends her abroad to dangerous places, armed with a pen. She’s been shot at twice.”
― Eve Chase, The Daughters of Foxcote Manor