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61 " We all leave markers behind—dead or alive—vibrations that trail behind us through all the places we’ve been. And if "
― Shea Ernshaw , A History of Wild Places
62 " We all have something we’d like to forget, some broken piece of ourselves we’d like to bury in the grave of our minds, "
63 " But right now, I only want to press myself close to him and let the sound of his heart drown out my thoughts. "
64 " It’s hard not to feel drawn in by a legend that repeats itself without falter or fail each season. "
― Shea Ernshaw , The Wicked Deep
65 " Perhaps we all have oddity, some strangeness we keep hidden along our edges, things we see that we can explain things we wish for thing we run from. "
66 " Ojalá pudiera abrirlo, cortarle la corteza dura, y ver qué esconde en su interior. "
― Shea Ernshaw , Winterwood
67 " « I’m certain that love can be a wound, deep and saw-soothed and filled with salt.but sometimes it’s wort it » "
68 " Pero con sus manos, que me sujetan, que hacen de puntos de apoyo, me siento a salvo. "
69 " The town might be required to give you a parade.” He smiles full and big for the first time, a softness in his eyes. “The hero requirements in this town must be pretty low.” “We just really like parades.” Again he smiles. "
70 " I've often wondered if power does this to a man: unravels him slowly over time, doubt itching beneath his flesh until it's all that's left. "
71 " He pulls apart the threads of my mind that keep me tied together. My bones become heavy like river stones. My eyes flutter closed, and I hear a change in the air, like the ice splintering along the edge of the pond in winter, thin and delicate. I am the ice: sharp, deadly. I will break if Levi isn't careful. I will slice him open if my edges are exposed. "
72 " Silence can hold a thousand untold stories. "
― Shea Ernshaw
73 " It's been five years since she was here, but the memory replays itself across my mind as if I were standing beside her on that quiet afternoon. We all leave markers behind - dead or alive - vibrations that trail behind us through all the places we've been. And if you know how to see them, the imprints of a person can be found - and followed. But like all things, they fade with time, become less clear, until finally they are washed over with new memories, new people who have passed through here. "
74 " ...and I wonder if the things we keep from one another will break us apart. I wonder if the things we don’t say are worse than the lies we do. Like the illness, they will rot us from the inside out. "
75 " L'amour est une enchanteresse — sauvage sournoise. Elle se glisse derrière vous, douce, tendre et tranquille, juste avant de vous trancher la gorge. "
76 " Creo que para la mente es más fácil olvidar. Hundirse en el fondo. "
77 " Amar a alguien es peligroso. Tienes algo que puedes perder. "
78 " Death has a way of leaving breadcrumbs, little particles of the past that catch and settle and stain. "
79 " Si fuera tan fácil hacer surgir el amor por medio de hechizos, no habría tantos corazones rotos. "
80 " How are the others? he asks, tucking a strand of hair behind my ear, his breathing slow and rhythmic. I know the sound of his lungs, of his beating heart - even during the gathering, among the pattering heartbeats of so many others - I can always pick out the measured rhythm of his. Because it belongs to me. I know it as well as my own. "