The House in the Pines Quotes

“Some cultures blame such deaths on evil spirits. The mind will always try to explain what it can’t understand—it will make up stories, theories, whole belief systems—and Maya’s mind, Dr. Barry said, was of the type that saw faces in clouds and messages in tea leaves.”
― Ana Reyes, The House in the Pines

“Olvidé que era hijo de reyes.”
― Ana Reyes, The House in the Pines

“You think I wanted to kill her? I didn’t. But she figured it out. Can you believe it? I made the mistake of recommending a book to her about a famous mesmerist, and she made the jump to hypnosis”
― Ana Reyes, The House in the Pines

“Maya yearns for that time in her own life, not out of some need to escape reality—reality is fine—but simply because she was born that way. Born to yearn, as some people are, for more magical times. This is her fourth acid trip, so she knows about the sadness of coming down, the sense of God having vacated the garden.”
― Ana Reyes, The House in the Pines

“The mess had never bothered her, but now the room felt disturbingly like the inside of her head.”
― Ana Reyes, The House in the Pines

“She only has room for twenty and has just moved It by Stephen King over to the leave-at-home pile to make room for Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson, which her mom read aloud to her when she was ten and stuck at home for a week with strep throat.”
― Ana Reyes, The House in the Pines

“Now her mom was looking at her with the vigilance of a retired paramedic who had never really made it off the ambulance.”
― Ana Reyes, The House in the Pines

“Withdrawal had taken her hunger, and Maya saw that she was losing weight, the bones of her cheeks and collarbones more pronounced. She forced herself to unclench her jaw.”
― Ana Reyes, The House in the Pines

“The mind will always try to explain what it can’t understand”
― Ana Reyes, The House in the Pines

“The quiet felt loud.”
― Ana Reyes, The House in the Pines

“It was only a glance, less than a second, but that look Frank gave Aubrey has expanded to fill hours of Maya’s life.”
― Ana Reyes, The House in the Pines

“She took her martini to a small table in the corner and drank most of it in a few gulps that burned the whole way down, then faded to a pleasant warmth.”
― Ana Reyes, The House in the Pines

“He’d told Maya he was twenty, but the math didn’t work: this hollow-eyed, salt-and-pepper man was easily in his forties. No wonder he hadn’t wanted to meet her mom.”
― Ana Reyes, The House in the Pines

“And all this week … Of course I knew something was wrong. And you—you hid it from me. You’ve been taking pills behind my back, making yourself sick with how much you’ve been drinking. You’re hurting yourself, Maya. You can’t hide it anymore.”
― Ana Reyes, The House in the Pines

“he hadn’t wanted to dirty the floors, and the thought of him playing make-believe out here, acting as if the house is real, is so absurd and sad and strange that a startled laugh rises in her throat, and she covers her mouth as if to hold it inside.”
― Ana Reyes, The House in the Pines

“The cabin was one of the first things she told me about him. I remember it impressed her, and to be honest it impressed me too. I mean, who else our age owns a home? Not to mention builds their own? But then the more I heard about him, the less impressed”
― Ana Reyes, The House in the Pines

“Because if Frank thinks he can kiss her and discard her for her (prettier) friend, he’s going to have to tell her to her face.”
― Ana Reyes, The House in the Pines

“Maya might as well have handed Frank a key to her head and her heart the day she told him the story of her dead father.”
― Ana Reyes, The House in the Pines

“The Frank she knew could have easily made up the story about sneaking up a Mayan pyramid at dawn. She doubted very much now that this had happened, or that he had ever been to Guatemala, period. He must have figured it would impress her to say he had, and he’d been right.”
― Ana Reyes, The House in the Pines

“He’s weird, Maya. He’s controlling. And if I had to guess, I’d say he was the one who suggested you defer at BU?”
― Ana Reyes, The House in the Pines

“She still doesn’t understand why he was so upset that she had told Aubrey about the cabin. But whatever his reason, Maya wants to make things right. Clear the air.”
― Ana Reyes, The House in the Pines

“He’s taking you to a cabin in the woods. What is this, a horror movie?” “You wouldn’t say that if you knew him.” “Really?” “Look, I said I was sorry. And I am. I should’ve been here at nine.”
― Ana Reyes, The House in the Pines

“Maybe you need to find someone to blame. But I want to remember Cristina as she was while she was alive. I’ll leave her death up to the police and the coroner, not to amateur sleuths who happened to see the video online.”
― Ana Reyes, The House in the Pines

“How improbable that both she and Aubrey, seven years apart, would drop dead in Frank’s presence. She had to imagine, or at least hope, that Dan would find it suspicious.”
― Ana Reyes, The House in the Pines

“She looked Hispanic but had grown up with a single white mom and knew very little about her family in Guatemala. She didn’t feel she fit in with the other Hispanic kids, while not being white meant she stuck out in Pittsfield.”
― Ana Reyes, The House in the Pines

“But now that Maya had cut down on drinking, they saw each other less and less; looking back, she realized their monthly brunches had become literally transactional: fifty dollars for ninety milligrams of Klonopin.”
― Ana Reyes, The House in the Pines

“Thick black hair and high Mayan cheekbones met the round chin and upturned nose of the Irish on her face.”
― Ana Reyes, The House in the Pines

“All through college, she was blackout drunk several nights a week. She still managed to get A’s and B’s, but that was just the easy classes she was taking, overcrowded lectures where no one knew her name and it didn’t matter if she was hungover. She kept telling herself she was having fun, and maybe she was; it was hard to remember. There were enough embarrassing pictures of her online dancing on tabletops, always a drink or a shot in hand, to suggest she was having the time of her life.”
― Ana Reyes, The House in the Pines

“apophenia—the false belief that unrelated things are somehow connected. The delusion behind many a conspiracy theory,”
― Ana Reyes, The House in the Pines

“Dawn sprang in like lions through the windows.”
― Ana Reyes, The House in the Pines