Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1) QUOTES

2 " He planted his feet a shoulders width apart in the ground. After a moment he closed his eyes. Here was the wood. Slow and green he felt the life of it, the life that had been his life as well these four centuries past. It poured around him thick and steady, binding all together: the long patient strength of the trees that anchored, the deep bright power of the handful of dryads--Tobias felt Bramble clear as day among them, young and strong--and then the small and necessary, the bracken and ferns, the mosses and mushrooms. Here were the songbirds and ravens and solemn wide-winged owls, shy deer and burrowing rabbits, fox and badger and snake, beetles and moths and midges, all the things that were in the wood, that lived each in their own way under the shelter of the old oak. (76-77) "

― Emily Tesh , Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

4 " At once slow deep green rolled over him. He took a breath, and another, smelling old rotting leaves and healthy growth and autumn light. He felt almost as though he could have planted his feet and become a tree himself, a strong oak reaching up to the sky, brother of the old oak who ruled the wood. "

― Emily Tesh , Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

6 " The Green Man walks the wood," he tried explaining. "But the wood remembers. "

― Emily Tesh , Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

8 " Pearl graciously crawled into his lap and butted his hand with her head to indicate he might have the honour of petting her. "

― Emily Tesh , Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

10 " The world was far bigger than Tobias remembered from four centuries ago. It was bigger than he had ever known, and he was living in it. He had thought himself a thing uprooted, like the great oak, ready to begin his death.

"Mr Finch," said Mrs Silver, the one time he said anything about it. "you are not, in point of fact, a tree. "

― Emily Tesh , Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

12 " A long, long time, that was what. A long time, whispered the low rustle of the breeze in the leaves outside. A long time, sang the drip-drip-drip of rainwater, softly, while Tobias sat clear-eyed and sleepless in the dark, listening to the wood. "

― Emily Tesh , Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

14 " You’re another folklorist,” said Tobias, trying to keep up. “A practical folklorist,” said Mrs Silver. “Vampires eliminated, ghouls laid to rest, fairies discouraged, and so on. "

― Emily Tesh , Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

16 " it was a damn good coat, even Tobias could tell that, the kind so perfectly tailored it required a servant to pour you into it and peel you out again— "

― Emily Tesh , Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

18 " The way he said it, and the look he gave Tobias with it, was flirting. Flirting! At least Tobias recognised it this time. Funny thing, to be flirted with by a pretty young fellow who wore expensive coats. Made Tobias feel young again, and at the same time very, very old. "

― Emily Tesh , Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

20 " It was a foulness that refused to surrender to cleansing decay. Year on year it endured, throwing off poison in all directions, waiting in the dark, coiling itself into the fabric of the wood. "

― Emily Tesh , Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)