L.V. Pires > Quotes

“She was my mother, but really, she was more of a bad memory than anything else.”
― L.V. Pires, The Haunting of Whitehall Manor

“That’s been hard because of how you raised me.” “What does that mean?” I wasn’t going to tell her about all the years of therapy I’d already gone through that taught me how not having a relationship with your mother can destroy your ability to love.”
― L.V. Pires, The Haunting of Whitehall Manor

“I knew even as a child that Seraphine was unwell. She kept me at a distance like I was a stranger, not her own child. She preferred isolation to people. Father said she hated me, but he couldn’t understand why when he loved me so much.”
― L.V. Pires, The Haunting of Whitehall Manor

“I turned to see an empty desk with no one behind it.”
― L.V. Pires, The Curse of Whitehall Manor

“Gardener, cursing at the weed,   Ere you curse it further, say:   Who but you planted the seed In my fertile heart, one day?   Ere you curse me further, say!   New beginnings and new shoots   Spring again from hidden roots.   Pull or stab or cut or burn, Love must ever yet return. —Robert Graves”
― L.V. Pires, The Haunting of Whitehall Manor