A Parchment of Leaves Quotes

“I had always found comfort in the leaves, in their silence. They were like a parchment that holds words of wisdom. Simply holding them in my hand gave me some of the peace a tree possesses. To be like that-to just be-that's the most noble thing of all.”
― Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves

“Any two people can set and jaw all day long, but it takes two people right for each other to set together and just be quiet.”
― Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves

“Maybe all the secrets of life were written on the surface of leaves, waiting to be translated. If I touched them long enough, I might be given some information no one else had.”
― Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves

“Every morning I was renewed, though. Air and light healed me, over and over. I got to where I depended on it. When I was feeling my worst, I would step out into the yard and put my hands on the branches of the little redbud. It made me feel like I was saying a prayer, to do this. I know that sounds like foolishness, but that little tree was like an altar for me. I stood there in the cold of early winter, wishing for the redbud to bear leaves so that I might put my face against them.”
― Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves

“I wondered if we were put on this earth only to destroy every beautiful thing, to make chaos. Or were we meant to overcome this? Did bad things happen so that goodness could show through in people?”
― Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves

“I wondered if the trees were God. They were like God in many respects: they stood silent, and most people only noticed them when the need arose.”
― Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves

“When you have a child, you have to put things aside, though. You have to live for them, if not for yourself. I was aware of this. I knowed that I could not let myself die inside, so I struggled through and made a way for myself. Most important, I tried to find a way to get joy into my life. I made a way for the possibility of joy. I looked for it anywhere I could find it. I got up early and stepped out onto the porch to see day come in.”
― Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves

“Autumn air is good for the lungs.”
― Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves

“I hoped that I would give to my marriage the same nurturing that I found easy to give to the corn and the tomatoes. Raising a garden and keeping a marriage in shape are not that different.”
― Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves

“Terror does things to you. It hardens a part of you. I have heard people call others hard-hearted, but it’s not your heart that turns to stone when something awful happens. It’s your gut, where all real feelings come from. That was froze up inside me and I didn’t long to thaw it.”
― Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves

“There is so much writ upon the parchment of leaves,
So much of beauty blown upon the winds,
I can but fold my hands and sink my knees
In the leaf pages. —James Still,”
― Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves

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― Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves

“I throwed crumbs from last night’s corn bread out onto the yard so redbirds would swoop down and peck at them.”
― Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves

“It's time to get up now. You've got a child to tend to. A life to live. You have to put this behind you and go on.”
― Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves

“It was as if I had been mute all my life and only now had discovered what words sounded like.”
― Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves

“Daylight is the time God moves about the best. I’ve heard people say that they liked to watch the world come awake. But the world is always awake; sunlight just makes it seeable. In that moment when light hit the mountain, when the sun cracked through the sky big enough to make a noise if our ears could hear it, I would be aware again of all the things that had been going on throughout the night. Morning just made it easier to hear. Light takes away muteness. I”
― Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves