16 Quotes by Isaac du Toit

I was shocked to find that there, in front of me, were the four senses playing poker

One of the most popular legends was the tale of Lady Alexandra Greenwood, who was said to appear whenever something grave was about to happen. Her apparition was supposedly last witnessed weeping in the darkness of the cellar on the night before the death of Mrs Humphrey Devereux.

The whole idea of a haunted manor house is a story type that I have often liked, but we did not do it that well.

Inside the once luxurious rooms for entertainment were the portraits of Greenwood family members long gone, the paintings now damp and chilly. They were arranged throughout the house like discarded memories, moments now trapped in time.

The human race is long since dead and gone; the streets are silent and empty. All the computers systems are down, as is the internet. Skyscrapers and houses stand as a strange echo of the species that once dominated planet Earth.

Oh, the wizardry of history. All the people who have lived and died, the people whose stories have survived.

You see Sophie, it is the story of the people who worked and lived, not the house that matters. The history of a house is the history of the people who have lived in it.

I peered through the old, mossy, stained glass windows at the interior, and it was as I guessed, run down. Were my parents really going to make this place home?

In stories, you can find out all sorts of things. Did you know that in 1769 the English navigator Captain James Cook sighted Aotearoa (New Zealand)? He landed at Poverty Bay two days later.