Jon Downes Goodreads Quotes Quotes

“You see, Richard, I’ve been sort of living with the afterlife for the last few years. A chunk of me broke off and died with my son and husband that night. Ever since the car accident I feel dislocated, dislodged, unhinged, undone, constant déjà vu. Sometimes I hear an echo where I shouldn’t.”
― Jon Downes, The Squatter: An Old Castle Novel

“When we are young, we don’t realise we are young. When we are old we do realise we are old. True freedom we had as children only exists in memory.”
― Jon Downes, The Squatter: An Old Castle Novel

“There is nothing in life or the afterlife that can scare me now.”
― Jon Downes, The Squatter: An Old Castle Novel

“Everyone loves a good ghost story because it’s just a story.”
― Jon Downes, The Squatter: An Old Castle Novel

“You’re going to be the voice of the voiceless.”
― Jon Downes, The Squatter: An Old Castle Novel

“Molly gasped for air, never felt more alive now that she was dying…”
― Jon Downes, The Squatter: An Old Castle Novel

“Molly Greene had been through far too much in this life to be intimidated by anyone from the afterlife.”
― Jon Downes, The Squatter: An Old Castle Novel

“But now she crumbled as something swam up from the deep well of pain and murky sorrow, where all her bottled tears had lain stagnant, and bit her with its needle teeth.”
― Jon Downes, The Squatter: An Old Castle Novel

“They say truth can be a bitter pill to swallow, but lies can be even more of a bitter pill and will fester in the belly. Molly wailed, bringing herself to the point of gagging and vomiting, as she flushed the demons from her system, these fiendish angels which had haunted her more than anything this possessed house could ever raise. She’d never spoken about why Mike and Henry had been taken in the accident; her girls never knew it should’ve been their own mother on the road that night, but she’d been all liquored up at a silly work party, and she was taking that to her grave — where she should be right now.”
― Jon Downes, The Squatter: An Old Castle Novel

“The farmhouse would be their victory; a broken house for a broken family.”
― Jon Downes, The Squatter: An Old Castle Novel

“In her pursuit of the afterlife, she’d overlooked life.”
― Jon Downes, The Squatter: An Old Castle Novel