Jonathan Dunne The Squatter Quotes

“There’s a certain comfort in knowing what’s gone is gone, but what’s half-gone is pure agony.”
― Jonathan Dunne, The Squatter: An Old Castle Novel

“A house doesn't always make a home...”
― Jonathan Dunne, The Squatter: An Old Castle Novel

“She can be an old dragon,’ the secretary whispered from behind the glass.
‘Dragons don’t exist,’ Molly answered.
‘This one does and she spits fire.”
― Jonathan Dunne, The Squatter: An Old Castle Novel

“I can hear voices in the fireplace.”
― Jonathan Dunne, The Squatter: An Old Castle Novel

“Then along came a Covid spider, sat down beside her, and frightened her customers away.”
― Jonathan Dunne, The Squatter: An Old Castle Novel

“My extended family and I believe the child who walks alone is a festering wound which has turned the house septic. We are looking for the anti…septic.”
― Jonathan Dunne, The Squatter: An Old Castle Novel

“Girls, I think it’s time you were formally introduced to our squatter — your soul brother.”
― Jonathan Dunne, The Squatter: An Old Castle Novel

“The giant mouldy screen on Molly’s bedroom ceiling began to twirl and swirl in on itself. A black vortex emitting an overpowering stench of decay and mould began to drip from the ceiling like a hellish stalactite. Molly’s pitiful sobs cut to a sudden gagging halt in her throat as her child — her thing — oozed from the ceiling, descending down through the whirlwind of blight, sending Molly Greene into heaving hyperventilation.”
― Jonathan Dunne, The Squatter: An Old Castle Novel

“Only the sweet innocence of childhood could make this music. Let’s appreciate their senseless yet timeless music while we have it.”
― Jonathan Dunne, The Squatter: An Old Castle Novel

“It’s not a problem with the house; it’s what’s in the house”
― Jonathan Dunne

“But where was the source of this River of Rage? High up in the lofty peaks of Guilt Mountain where Molly kept her anger in a cave called Henry.”
― Jonathan Dunne, The Squatter: An Old Castle Novel

“It had a feminine shape with the face of a sin.”
― Jonathan Dunne, The Squatter: An Old Castle Novel

“Billy’s face was enlightened, clean and clear of any worry. The child bloomed with the gift of youth the recently deceased seem to regain, flushed of their mortal shackles.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Billy's Experiment: An Old Castle Novel

“Oh, to hide in the shadow of your sweet wing of darkness.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Billy's Experiment: An Old Castle Novel