The Villa Quotes

“Stories change depending on who's telling them.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

“Sometimes we don’t really know we’ve won until we see the reflection of that win in the loser’s eyes.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

“Houses remember.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

“People are never just gone, after all. There are always marks, always signs.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

“Ruined her life, though. Made her think she was somebody when really she was just a part of a somebody's story.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

“Use a knife, use a sword, use a pair of fucking kitchen shears if you must, but cut yourself free.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

“You want to stick your head in the sand, and make this all go away. But the thing is, it’s not going to. The sand doesn’t FIX the problem, it just HIDES it.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

“She had forgotten, as we all do, that beautiful things can contain their own darkness. —Lilith Rising, Mari Godwick, 1976”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

“I’ll miss you forever, Mari,” Lara says. “But I’m not giving you absolution. We don’t deserve it.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

“If you want to receive the good things the universe has for you, Em, you can’t have ugly thoughts blocking the path. We have to let go of pain and resentment if we want the gifts we deserve.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

“Later, this is a memory that will break her heart a thousand times over.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

“She’s inevitable.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

“(Well, almost the end. There’s actually still one more section that Mari wrote, but I’ve kept that for myself. I have to keep some part of this just for me.)”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

“Part of a somebody’s story. It’s a twisty turn of phrase, one I immediately like, and I tell myself to remember it later.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

“payment that I definitely need. How is it that someone can bring out the very best and the very worst of you all at once?”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

“The First Wife” was the shortest story in Marianne’s collection, almost more like a poem, really, a metaphorical, lyrical take on the legend of Lilith, said to be Adam’s wife before Eve. But Lilith had been made of the same earth as Adam rather than made from him, and she hadn’t been obedient, which of course made her wicked.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

“This person is bad, they do a bad thing, or this house is bad, it makes people do a bad thing.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

“She seems to have already lived a thousand lifetimes, has lost her family, lost a child, and it’s aged her. Maybe not in her face, but her soul feels heavier,”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

“Now, you can either accept that or you can decide that this kind of thing is a deal breaker for you, but what you can’t do is keep getting upset over the same thing. She’s never gonna not do this kind of shit.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

“I know you think I'm a despicable human being, and most of the time, you're not wrong. But listen to me now. Cut yourself free from all of this . . . Use a knife, use a sword, use a pair of fucking kitchen shears if you must, but cut yourself free.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

“Because if it’s not that, then what the fuck is wrong with me?”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

“Everything she read, she wanted to write.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

“The body always knows,” Chess says now. “Chapter Six of The Powered Path. ‘The world warns us about putting toxins in our body, and assumes toxic people can only hurt our souls. But there are people just as poisonous to us as any chemical.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

“Sun rising over the water/clouds floating so high A place where I can settle/a home without goodbye Have I searched for this too long?/Have I finally lost my way? Or is this the beginning/of a new and brighter day?”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

“We have to let go of pain and resentment if we want the gifts we deserve.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

“but what you can’t do is keep getting upset over the same thing. She’s never gonna not do this kind of shit.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

“But he swears it was just one time with Lara, and it was after Billy had died,”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

“And last, thanks to Mary Shelley. I don’t think I need to explain why.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

“She’ll be gone soon, but the villa will stand for much longer, she knows, and that means she’s never really gone. Neither is Pierce, or Lara, or Noel, or even Johnnie. They still walk those halls, and soon so will she. So will others who come after her. Houses remember.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

“I’m glad I’m next to you. Then her smile curdles. “To secrets,” she adds. “And partnership.” And that’s when I know this doesn’t end. Any chance I ever had of freeing myself from any of this drowned in that lake with Matt. I chose Chess. And I chose her forever. I clink my glass against hers, and it sounds like a door slamming shut. “To us.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Villa