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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 " 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. "
3 " 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. "
4 " Es una carga para ella. Nuestra historia familiar parece una enfermedad de la que no puede librarse. "
5 " Because I am more darkness than girl. More winter shadow than August sunlight. "
6 " Perhaps it's easier: being alone. Building walls. A solitary life with no one to lose. No one to break your heart. "
7 " 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. "
8 " No one sees that I have just as many wounds as everyone else. That I too am a little broken. "
9 " 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. "
10 " 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 "
11 " I'm certain that love can be a wound, deep and saw-toothed and filled with salt. But sometimes it's worth it. "
12 " She is just a girl.With raven hair and crush-your-heart-in-half eyes. "
13 " Locked doors are better than friends you can't trust. "
14 " To the readers of this story, if you find yourself in a dark wood, without a match to light the way. Be your own light. "
15 " Her name is Nora Walker. I don’t know anything about her, yet somehow I remember the arch of her smile. The soft river of her hair. The flutter of her eyes when she watches me. The scent of her skin like jasmine and vanilla. And when her lips purse together and she hums a song under her breath, memories I can’t possibly have pour through me. She is a name and a heartbeat that lives inside me. "
16 " I thought I wanted to be alone, that I was brave and strong and didn't need a single thing from anyone. But now I'm not so sure. "
17 " Twist "
18 " The woods are wild and rugged and unkind. They cannot be trusted "
19 " I think that maybe, possibly, he cares about me. But I’m also certain I’ll find a way to ruin it. Just give me time. "
20 " We are safe in here, I want to tell her. But that would imply we aren’t safe out there, in the forest, in the mountains, in the dark. But the truth is: I don’t know anymore. "
