House of Cotton Quotes

“Lately, I been keeping all my sadness locked in a pantry somewhere inside. My grief and my self-hatred placed on shelves like canned tomatoes.”
― Monica Brashears, House of Cotton

“Wetting the earth with tears ain't never made anybody sprout.”
― Monica Brashears, House of Cotton

“You think the dead don't recognize dead when they see it?”
― Monica Brashears, House of Cotton

“[Your little friends] aren't even interesting. If anything, they're perfumed and loquacious.”
― Monica Brashears, House of Cotton

“if brains were leather, you wouldn’t have enough to saddle a June bug.”
― Monica Brashears, House of Cotton

“To House Mountain, whose location I change at each story’s insistence, for looming over my life and hosting so much strange beauty”
― Monica Brashears, House of Cotton