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The Last House on Needless Street QUOTES

The Last House on Needless Street QUOTES

1 " Anyway the trick to life is, if you don’t like what is happening, go back to sleep until it stops. "

― Catriona Ward , The Last House on Needless Street

2 " The young feel pain intensely, I think, because they don’t know yet how deep it can go. "

― Catriona Ward , The Last House on Needless Street

3 " How many times can someone bend before they break forever? You have to take care, dealing with broken things; sometimes they give way, and break others in their turn. "

― Catriona Ward , The Last House on Needless Street

4 " I like this kind of place, where you’re in between one thing and another. Hallways, waiting rooms, lobbies and so on; rooms where nothing is actually supposed to happen. It relieves a lot of pressure and lets me think. "

― Catriona Ward , The Last House on Needless Street

5 " Thoughts are a door that the dead walk through. "

― Catriona Ward , The Last House on Needless Street

6 " Everything in life is a rehearsal for loss. Only the smart people know it. "

― Catriona Ward , The Last House on Needless Street

7 " I’ll tell you a secret, kitten. Everyone feels like that sometimes. Sometimes things get bad, and you can’t see a future ahead. It’s all cloudy, like the sky on a rainy day. But life moves very fast. Things never stay the same forever, even the bad things. The clouds will blow away. They always do, I promise. "

― Catriona Ward , The Last House on Needless Street

8 " The first thing I hate is called a Russian doll. It holds a smaller version of itself inside it, and another inside that and so on. How awful. They are prisoners. I imagine them all screaming in the dark, unable to move or speak. The doll’s face is broad and blankly smiling. It looks so happy to be holding its children captive. "

― Catriona Ward , The Last House on Needless Street

9 " I don’t recall names but I have my ways of judging and remembering people. The first one is: would they be kind to my cat? "

― Catriona Ward , The Last House on Needless Street

10 " I had always felt that there was something wrong with me. I was like one of the tracings I did on her baking paper, a bad one, where the comic book underneath slipped; the lines slewed across the page, and the picture became a monstrous version of itself. "

― Catriona Ward , The Last House on Needless Street

11 " There’s a monster inside each of us,’ he says. 'If you let yours out, Ted, it might not eat you. "

― Catriona Ward , The Last House on Needless Street

12 " I judge people two ways—on how they treat animals, and on what they like to eat. If their favorite food is some kind of salad, they are definitely a bad person. Anything with cheese, they are probably OK. "

― Catriona Ward , The Last House on Needless Street

13 " Anyway the trick to life is, if you don't like what is happening, go back to sleep until it stops.

From a cat. "

― Catriona Ward , The Last House on Needless Street

14 " That is when it happened. A soft white glow gathered on his chest, over the place where his heart must be. The glow became a cord, reaching out through the air. The cord approached me. I rowed and struggled. But I was held fast. I felt the light encircle my neck, link me to his heart. It didn’t hurt. It bound us together. I don’t know if he felt it too – I like to think he did. Then he brought me home to this nice warm house where I can sleep all the time and get stroked. I don’t even have to look at the outside world if I don’t want to! The windows are all boarded up. Ted made me an indoor cat and I’ve never had to worry about anything since. This is our house which is just for us, and no one else is allowed in. Apart from Night-time, of course, and the green boys and Lauren. I could do without some of them, to be honest. I "

― Catriona Ward , The Last House on Needless Street

15 " Children are like a chain around your heart or neck, and they pull you in every direction. "

― Catriona Ward , The Last House on Needless Street

16 " I would also investigate the type and quality of naps there are, because there are so many different kinds. Short and deep--I call that kind "the wishing well." The very light doze, kind of half under, which can go on for hours--I call those "skateboards." The sort you have in front of the TV when a good show is playing (NOT this show) and you kind of take in the plot but are also asleep--those are called "whisperers. "

― Catriona Ward , The Last House on Needless Street

17 " I think my cat is, what would you say?
Homosexual. Gay. I think my cat is attracted to female cats. "

― Catriona Ward , The Last House on Needless Street

18 " I am not dead, I can tell, because there is a strand of spaghetti on the green tile floor. What happens after death may be bad or good but there won’t be spilled spaghetti. "

― Catriona Ward , The Last House on Needless Street

19 " He looks at me. His round eyes seem flat now, like bad coins. "There's a monster inside each of us," he says. "If you let yours out, Ted, it might not eat you. "

― Catriona Ward , The Last House on Needless Street

20 " If one thing comes to light, others follow. They are like that, secrets, they move in flocks like birds. "

― Catriona Ward , The Last House on Needless Street