Field Guide to the Haunted Forest (Haunted Forest Trilogy)

by Jarod K. Anderson

Our blood and breath are hand-me-downs.

You are not born to this place. You are born of this place.

Our bodies speak of contradiction. Bones and soft tissue. Teeth and lips. Sensitive resilience. What strong family resemblance we share with the landscapes that shaped us. Wind and stone. Rivers and oaks. This old dance of opposing forces creating a unified whole.

Here’s the thing. You can’t think your way out of depression any more than you can think your way out of drowning.

Asking for a life-jacket is more important than knowing the physics of buoyancy.

It’s too late for you not to matter.

When an explosion explodes hard enough, dust wakes up and thinks about itself.

Our task is to become our truest selves and to smile at the knowledge that we will not succeed.