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1 " I grew up in this room, in this loft overlooking the lake. I was born here too, seventeen years ago under a watery full moon while a rainstorm flooded the banks of the lake and turned the shore to mud. All Walkers are coaxed into the world when the moon is brightest. As if our birthright were calling to us. "
― Shea Ernshaw , Winterwood
2 " There is no history in a place until we make it, until you live a life worth remembering. We have made a history here - some of it was more folklore than truth, more fear than anything else. But some of it was good. Some of it lives inside each of us, the history of this wild, wild, land.... I wonder if she will love this place as I do. If she will feel rooted here at birth. If she will look up at the stars and know, we're all just trying to find our way home. "
― Shea Ernshaw , A History of Wild Places
3 " No matter where you go, there are cracks in the plaster, nails coming loose, you just have to decide where you want to piece yourself back together. Where the ground feels sturdiest beneath your feet. "
4 " Creo que no sabe cómo me descoloca.No sabe que durante un brevísimo momento, la oscuridad del bosque parecíamuy lejana. Sus dedos borraron el frío de los árboles que siempre se retuerceen mis articulaciones, que se revuelve por las rodillas, los omóplatos y lacolumna. Cuando ella está cerca, se desvanecen mis recuerdos de ese sitio.Ella lo contiene.Ella es lo único que me hace pensar que tal vez no soy el villano después detodo; sino, el héroe. O el que fue salvado, rescatado del bosque oscuro. "
5 " But magic was not always so linear. It was born from odium. From love. From revenge. "
― Shea Ernshaw , The Wicked Deep
6 " It's like a fairytale suspended in time-the princess forgotten, the hero eaten whole by a noble Fir goblin. The story ended, but no one remembered to burn the haunted forest to the ground. "
7 " Es una carga para ella. Nuestra historia familiar parece una enfermedad de la que no puede librarse. "
8 " Love is an enchantress—devious and wild. It sneaks up behind you, soft and gentle and quiet, just before it slits your throat. "
9 " We wait for death. We hold our breath. We know it's coming, and still we flinch when it claws at our throats and pulls us under. "
10 " Because I am more darkness than girl. More winter shadow than August sunlight. "
11 " This town was built on revenge,” I say. “And it’s never made anything better or right. "
12 " Perhaps it's easier: being alone. Building walls. A solitary life with no one to lose. No one to break your heart. "
13 " I once read a poem about love being fragile, as thin as glass and easily broken.But that is not the kind of love that survives in a place like this. It must be hardy and enduring. It must have grit. "
14 " I might love him. And it has tilted my universe off center, the frayed edges of my life starting to unravel. Loving someone is dangerous. It gives you something to lose. "
15 " She's not weak, she's not frail or breakable or scared of much. She is the storm that tears away roofs and knocks over trees. "
16 " No one sees that I have just as many wounds as everyone else. That I too am a little broken. "
17 " I don't want to be alone. I don't want the crack inside me to widen, for the ocean of loneliness to creep in. I don't want to drown. "
18 " Loving someone is dangerous. It gives you something to lose. "
19 " A tree all alone may grow hatred in its bark and moth-eaten leaves, but an entire forest can weave malice so deep and well-rooted that no safe passage can be made through such a place "
20 " We’re all just passing ships; no point forming friendships that won’t last. "
