Shutter Quotes

“Grandma always said to me that you never do things for people to get something in return. That is the white man’s way of living. You do it because they need you. You do it because if you don’t, no one else will.”
― Ramona Emerson, Shutter

“They used to call her a witch because she knew more than she should.”
― Ramona Emerson, Shutter

“They preyed on my youth and my naiveté because they knew I hadn’t learned to set boundaries.”
― Ramona Emerson, Shutter

“George Bush howled in the distance.”
― Ramona Emerson, Shutter

“Downtown Village was one of the oldest apartment buildings in Albuquerque, rising five stories above the street below. The first four floors housed six small apartments, each just like the one next to it. On the lower levels, the paint was still the hollow green of a hospital emergency room. It remained that way in part because all the elderly people who had settled there since the 1960s detested change--each existing in their small apartments, watching the walls of their rooms outlive their husbands and wives.”
― Ramona Emerson, Shutter

“Houses are just like bodies. When there is no spark, no life force to fill them with warmth, they’re just vessels.”
― Ramona Emerson, Shutter

“The unrealized tragedies of life consumed me.”
― Ramona Emerson, Shutter

“But no matter how strong I think I am, this thing—call it a gift or a curse—is still a part of me, just like my veins, heart, and hands. It is attached. It is a part of my voice and vision—this visually enhanced speakerphone from some other place. I can’t turn it off.”
― Ramona Emerson, Shutter

“I learned early that no amount of prayer or smoke or love was ever going to change the fact that these lights wanted to talk to me. Even at three years old, I knew it was something that deeply terrified my grandma and our medicine man. It was something that I was going to have to hide from them. As I got older, I taught myself how to look beyond the ghosts and mute their voices.”
― Ramona Emerson, Shutter

“over here?” Garcia”
― Ramona Emerson, Shutter

“Whatever was inside was hefty. Memories, maybe.”
― Ramona Emerson, Shutter

“left like a boyfriend who claimed he still loved her.”
― Ramona Emerson, Shutter