The Mystery of Yew Tree House Quotes

“I knew he had a hold on her, I wasn't clear what it was, she said it was better that I didn't know. But what you don't know, you make up”
― Lesley Thomson, The Mystery of Yew Tree House

“Rules offer opportunities not restrictions”
― Lesley Thomson, The Mystery of Yew Tree House

“Grief could be caustic. War had brought people together and it had driven them far apart”
― Lesley Thomson, The Mystery of Yew Tree House

“Her mum said there was no crisis so large that you forgot your manners”
― Lesley Thomson, The Mystery of Yew Tree House

“Children's games were not imitations of adult reality. Children adapted props, dressing up clothes and toys as signs and signifiers to construct a situation they could control, a reality without coercions or sanctions”
― Lesley Thomson, The Mystery of Yew Tree House

“You're only harmless when you're dead”
― Lesley Thomson, The Mystery of Yew Tree House

“You don't make memories, you either remember or you forget”
― Lesley Thomson, The Mystery of Yew Tree House

“It's easier to cry for our own dead at other funerals. Many will be in fear that it will soon be their loved one they mourn”
― Lesley Thomson, The Mystery of Yew Tree House