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41 " A small place of sanctuary. "
― C.J. Tudor , The Hiding Place
42 " I should use my stick. But I hate it. It makes me feel like an invalid. People look at me with pity. I hate being pitied. Pity should be saved for those who deserve it. "
43 " We're all still children inside. The same fears, the same joys. We just get taller, and better at hiding things. "
44 " Except for that my worst fears are confirmed. Nothing has changed. The place is, unfortunately, exactly as I remember it. "
45 " Places have secrets too, I think. Like people. You just need to dig. In land, in life, in a man's soul. "
46 " Like the mines that were once so prevalent here have somehow scooped out the life out if the place within. "
47 " The past, I think. Never more than a few careless words away. "
48 " But sometimes, there is no choice except the wrong choice. "
49 " There's always more. You just need to dig. And the deeper you go, the darker it gets. "
50 " Never go back. Thats what people always tell you. Things will have changed. They won't be the way you remembered. Leave the past in the past. Of course, the last one is easier said than done. The past has a habit of repeating on you. "
51 " Sometimes, some places, like people, have to want to be found. "
52 " Even when a family home is empty it has an echo of life. It shouldn't sit, heavy and foreboding with a thick, suffocating blanket of silence like this house does. "
53 " I want to tell her that memories become soft over time. As malleable as putty in our minds - we can shape them into anything we want. "
54 " I've seen first-hand how planning is a predictor of disaster, an invitation for fate to screw with you. "
55 " I find comfortable and stability in the written word. Pen and paper. Something tangible to cling on to. "
56 " The past isn't real. It is simply a story we tell ourselves. And sometimes, we lie. "
57 " Lies, I think. There are no such thing as white lies. Lies are never black or white. Only grey. A fog obscuring the truth. Sometimes so thick we can barely see it ourselves. "
58 " Sometimes, you don't have a choice. "
59 " To lose a child, the pain is unimaginable. I think grief is a type of madness. It can make you do things you would never, under normal circumstances, ever consider. "
60 " I do not believe in fate. But sometimes there is an ineluctable quality to life, a course it is difficult to alter. "