The Dead House Quotes

“I've learned, in my tragic little life, that memories are like water. Not solid, like some people think. Once something happens, it isn't set it stone. It can change.

You can make yourself believe anything if you lie to yourself enough.”
― Dawn Kurtagich, The Dead House

“There are places. Abandoned places. Forgotten places. These are the places I like to be.”
― Dawn Kurtagich, The Dead House

“They think I don't exist . . . they think I'm like a disease. I'm infecting Carly.”
― Dawn Kurtagich, The Dead House

“The words slipped out like a bubble, too fragile to resist the destruction of air. It was like a glass smashing against a wall.”
― Dawn Kurtagich, The Dead House

“I hate that I'm so easy to let go.”
― Dawn Kurtagich, The Dead House

“I am a prisoner of my skin. My bones are my cage.”
― Dawn Kurtagich, The Dead House

“Your eyes will be brown, a color that holds secrets well.”
― Dawn Kurtagich, The Dead House

“Kaitie, are you alone?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Hang up."
"But why? What is it?"
"I can hear someone breathing on the line."
[Click]”
― Dawn Kurtagich, The Dead House

“I curse anyone who reads this book. If you touch it, hell will be waiting. Screw you. Happy reading.”
― Dawn Kurtagich, The Dead House

“You can tell me anything, you know."
"Even a bad thing?"
"Of course, even a bad thing. And you know, when you tell someone else a bad thing, it breaks in half, so that you're only carrying a small bit of it.”
― Dawn Kurtagich, The Dead House

“One box, and it holds a whole life of love - almost every letter Carly and I have ever exchanged. Seeing it here, all together, three big bundles of paper...is that all we were? Dying pages, fading ink?”
― Dawn Kurtagich, The Dead House

“Because, Dee, I'm the thing in the dark, just like the Viking used to tell me. I'm the creature coming up from the basement, the thing under the bed. I have nothing to feat in the dark. I am the dark.

I am afraid.”
― Dawn Kurtagich, The Dead House

“Dark waters run deep.”
― Dawn Kurtagich, The Dead House

“And here I sit, writing about him as though he's just a ghost from my past that still haunts me. And I guess that is all he is now. Just some guy I used to know.”
― Dawn Kurtagich, The Dead House

“Change affects us all in different ways. It'll get easier as more time passes.”
― Dawn Kurtagich, The Dead House

“I'm not me,
And nor is she,
Who sits upon the bed?
But then who,
Is, is you,
Who seats here very dead?”
― Dawn Kurtagich, The Dead House

“I'm sorry. I really do try not to get angry. Carly says anger is a weapon, but sometimes I think it's just another cage.”
― Dawn Kurtagich, The Dead House