37 Quotes by Silas House

I wondered if the trees were God. They were like God in many respects: they stood silent, and most people only noticed them when the need arose.

Whole scenes of your life slip away forever if you don’t put them down in ink.

The heat was thick as curtains. Night was fixing to slide over the world and the cicadas were calming down for that hushed time between daylight and darkness, when crickets rosined their bows.

Now I had seen the grief of the two strongest people I knew. And somehow, Daddy’s and Edie’s crying made them seem even stronger to me. It was better to cry than to suck it up and go around conjuring hate in your heart.

God is in everything and everybody.

Paul told him everything about quilting, things he would never remember, but he savored each word as if they were lost verses of Scripture.

Surely there is a light in that boy that will never go out, no matter what he has to face along the way. That’s all a father can hope for his child, that a little fire will burn in them to keep them going, to keep them strong.

There had been a time when he would have thought this serendipity happened because God was on his side. Now he sees the arrogance of that thought.

Mamaw says this is the problem with a lot of politicians. “They want to do right, but they’re too scared to,” she says.