Sometimes just being still is the best thing you can do for yourself.

- Silas House

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 i…

- Silas House

Because they [Americans] want to be thought of as a rich nation, they are very ashamed of this place [Appalachia] that has come to represent poverty,…

- Silas House

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 gav…

- Silas House

But you cannot know a place without loving it and hating it and feeling everything in between. You cannot understand a complex people by only looking…

- Silas House

Whole scenes of your life slip away forever if you don't put them down in ink.

- Silas House

In New York, the buildings are like mountains in some ways, but they are only alive because of the people living in them. Real mountains are alive al…

- Silas House

Now I had seen the grief of the two strongest people I knew. And somehow, Daddy's and Edie's crying made them seem even stronger to me. It was better…

- Silas House

I've never understood why people run to get out of the rain in the summertime... People will drive miles and miles to go jump in a cool swimming hole…

- Silas House