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1 " said. "
― Loreth Anne White , The Dark Bones (A Dark Lure, #2)
2 " Olivia had also told her that all these trembling aspen trees were connected, one big organism joined by a root network underground. If you cut a tree up on this ridge, the others down in that grove would know. She wondered if they would all feel the pain of an ax strike at once. "
3 " The past doesn’t always have to write the future. "
4 " Once that whole valley was sage scrub. Nothing more. Until one little beaver dammed a small stream.” Silence. Wind rustles through autumn grasses. “A small act,” he says quietly, “that reshaped the future.” He looks at Ash. “The past doesn’t always have to write the future. "
5 " Damaged kids were like seeds landed in the wrong ground. Parts of them grew crooked. But they could still grow strong with the right care. "
6 " Sometimes those closest are the most blind to the Monster who lives among them. "
7 " Right. Sometimes the questions are complicated, and the answers are simple. "
8 " How men are like little ants on the crust of the earth, busying themselves with all that is so important, but their lives and industry are just a blink in geological time, really. Borrowed time at that. Mother Earth has only to shrug a shoulder in her sleep, and all the little men and houses go tumbling and scattering, and the men go fleeing for safer sanctuary. "
9 " what monsters might lurk in a man? "