What Should Be Wild
Julia Fine
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Nothing promises revival like a fairy tale.”
“To tell the story, Madenn reasoned, was to harness its power.”
“Unfair, to have just one attempt at ripeness, a few brief years of possibility before sweetness turns to rot.”
“The way a memory is real, but also not real.” I spoke quickly, with bravado. “If time is one long line and we’re all moving across it, there has to be a place we’re headed, and a place that we’ve just left. Obviously, the memory is the place that we left.” Rafe seemed impressed.”
“Life is not a riddle to be solved. The things that matter most cannot be won, cannot be tricked. They won't be studied, never fully understood.”
“Imagine all your life the earth is green and brown and quiet. Your days pass slowly. You celebrate the sun. All magic is of trees and dappled shadows, all mountains peaked eruptions from an old ancestral earth, a ground so sacred there has been no cause to name it.”
“Forward only, never back. Do not, in your mind, keep a tally of past horrors. Do not question decisions that cannot be unmade, dwell on actions that can not be undone. The power to equivocate is no power at all, and that you've ever thought it to be is your weakness.”
“You think because you name it and tell it, it becomes? A story is a present, tied with a ribbon and a wish. Real things aren't so easy.”
“Who knew what spirits could be watching, what ancient impulse lay in wait?”
“Was the unease he felt, the danger that he sensed, actual danger, or was it only love acknowledged? The object of his love made tender, appearing softer than she really was, appearing vulnerable in having made him vulnerable.”
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Book Keywords:
earth, reality, fantasy, magic, spirits, stories
