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Under Wildwood (Wildwood Chronicles, #2) QUOTES

Under Wildwood (Wildwood Chronicles, #2) QUOTES

1 " Sometimes, when the world is falling apart around you, all that's left to do is dance, right? "

― Colin Meloy , Under Wildwood (Wildwood Chronicles, #2)

2 " I just saw her. She was so … alive. "

― Colin Meloy , Under Wildwood (Wildwood Chronicles, #2)

3 " You're riding a runaway train into a tunnel that leads into a station where there's a welcome-home party from all your worst nightmares "

― Colin Meloy , Under Wildwood (Wildwood Chronicles, #2)

4 " THE OVERDWELLERS CALL FOR MANNA! QUICK, THE GRANOLA BARS! "

― Colin Meloy , Under Wildwood (Wildwood Chronicles, #2)

5 " I'VE BEEN SMOTE "

― Colin Meloy , Under Wildwood (Wildwood Chronicles, #2)

6 " That, combined with the look of absolute rage on their faces, gave them the likeness of furies released from the depths to wage chaos on the living world "

― Colin Meloy , Under Wildwood (Wildwood Chronicles, #2)

7 " Tonight, we return the vessel of Iphigenia to the Wood, her spirit having already been absorbed by the fabric of the cosmos. "

― Colin Meloy , Under Wildwood (Wildwood Chronicles, #2)

8 " Snow as white as a swan's feather, white as a trillium bloom. "

― Colin Meloy , Under Wildwood (Wildwood Chronicles, #2)

9 " And now you have to come out of hiding - even though your life is threatened by a shape-changing assassin - to walk however many miles in a snowstorm to go talk to a tree."
"Yup."
"I'm coming with you," said Curtis "

― Colin Meloy , Under Wildwood (Wildwood Chronicles, #2)

10 " Oddly enough, the old mole sported a long white beard, which Curtis didn't recall being something that mole typically did "

― Colin Meloy , Under Wildwood (Wildwood Chronicles, #2)

11 " Sure, Desdemona, at the receptionist's age, and seeing some poor woman in a second-hand gown and a plaster-cast of makeup to cover the encroaching menaces of age - wouldn't she have shot the same withering glance? "

― Colin Meloy , Under Wildwood (Wildwood Chronicles, #2)

12 " As Desdemona continued on about the administrative details of the business, her eyelids lazing at half-mast all the while, Elsie’s attention was drawn to the decorations on the office’s walls. She had always assumed that dust could only collect on a horizontal surface, but the Unthank Home’s drab green walls proved otherwise—a thin sheen of gray dust seemed to nearly act as a second coat of paint. "

― Colin Meloy , Under Wildwood (Wildwood Chronicles, #2)