Tim Westover > Quotes

“Money's a bad guest," said the widow Smith Patterson, keeping her arms crossed. "It doesn't stay long enough, and it makes an awful mess as it leaves.”
― Tim Westover, Auraria

“The rich are the laziest of men. They pay others to do the hard work.”
― Tim Westover, Auraria

“We should have springs and rivers, not mines and treasure tunnels. Gold is an unwelcome visitor. It works against the acclimation of people to the land.”
― Tim Westover, Auraria

“He could see it: a grand structure of some kind, with his own name. He should have pressed Ms. Rathbun for more details. The form arising in his mind’s eye, upon the little promontory, was hazy.”
― Tim Westover, Auraria

“What sort of water is that?” said Holtzclaw. “The wet kind,” said Ms. Rathbun.”
― Tim Westover, Auraria

“One by one, the electric lights ringing the lawn were ignited. Each one, as it burst into brilliance, erased a constellation from the evening sky.”
― Tim Westover, Auraria

“Kiel vi diris, tiel vi faru, ĝardenisto”, diris la Dommastro. “Jen la ĝardeno, kiun ni kultivos kune.”
― Tim Westover, Marvirinstrato

“Three days,” he says. “An’ you can have this house. It’s yours. These keys here—here. They’s yours. Any room, any hall, any pretty garden of this house an’ it’s all yours, ’cept for one place. You see this key?”
― Tim Westover, The Old Weird South

“Don’t leap out like that! You’ll give me an apoplexy!” cried Holtzclaw.”
― Tim Westover, Auraria

“Matty and the Grey Man Lara Ek   There was five of us till Pappa caught the pneumonia, an then after, there was only four of us, an Mamma had a hard time of it.”
― Tim Westover, The Old Weird South

“I cannot help but think that you are redefining your terms of success after the fact. You’ve shot a rifle, then drawn the bull’s-eye around the bullet hole.” “So have many other capitalists.”
― Tim Westover, Auraria

“Asbestos Hollow.”
― Tim Westover, Auraria

“Pharaoh’s Flour promises the full fidelity of your husband and the eternal good behavior of your children—not only because the delicacies that you create with it can never be forgotten, but also because Pharaoh’s Flour bakes into every cake and pie the ancient spells and curses with which the pharaohs guarded their undisturbed homes and descendants into Eternity. And the ancient spells and curses, once guarded by the wise and wealthy, are now available in your kitchen. Pharaoh’s Flour!”
― Tim Westover, Auraria

“Kiel vi diris, tiel vi faru”,”
― Tim Westover, Marvirinstrato

“wholesome botanical. It was moldy bread. But”
― Tim Westover, The Winter Sisters

“The valley was an instrument playing the Old Songs.”
― Tim Westover, Auraria

“think, though, that we are not haunted by ghosts as much as we are haunted by the past.”
― Tim Westover, The Old Weird South