The House That Walked Between Worlds Quotes

“Little rabbit, you take after your mother,” my dad would say. “Telling the sun when to rise and the clouds when to rain.”
― Jenny Schwartz, The House That Walked Between Worlds

“There were different kinds of power, and the ability to convince others to do what you wanted was possibly the most effective of all.”
― Jenny Schwartz, The House That Walked Between Worlds

“extreme wealth and Babushka’s determined rejection of it had taught me how to navigate inequalities. Either you hid away in the stratosphere of elite society and denied the existence of other people’s needs and ways of being, or you suffered the challenges of being privileged, but not sequestered.”
― Jenny Schwartz, The House That Walked Between Worlds

“Not everyone can kill, Kira. Those of us who can have to be the guardians for the innocent hearts.”
― Jenny Schwartz, The House That Walked Between Worlds

“Mom always said that revenge was regret turned outward, and to let it go.”
― Jenny Schwartz, The House That Walked Between Worlds

“To become a sage, a person must be selfish. Completely selfish. You can care about no one.”
― Jenny Schwartz, The House That Walked Between Worlds

“loved conspiracy theories. Mom hated them. She’d taught me to question my response to them. The more beguiling a conspiracy theory was, the more important it was to analyze what problem in my life it provided a placebo for.”
― Jenny Schwartz, The House That Walked Between Worlds