"The Old Willis Place" Quotes
Two siblings living in an abandoned estate befriend a new boy, but the ghostly inhabitant of the property threatens their secret.
horror | 208 pages | Published in 2004
Quotes
I’d rather be a ghost, drifting by your side as a condemned soul, than enter heaven without you. Because of your love, I will never be a lonely spirit.
The only thing you can do with a secret is tell it to someone else.
Sometimes the worst memories are the ones that insist on coming back.
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
It’s a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency.
You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.
The only time you look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look in your neighbor's bowl to see if you have as much as them.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
