Field Guide to the Haunted Forest (Haunted Forest Trilogy)

by Jarod K. Anderson

The water in your body is just visiting. It was a thunderstorm a week ago. It will be an ocean soon enough. Most of your cells come and go like morning dew.

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.

If you whisper a secret to a candle flame, then all fire everywhere will know that secret.

When an explosion explodes hard enough, dust wakes up and thinks about itself. And then writes about it.

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

The sterile white box is the stranger. Not the ant. Not the spider.

Truth and fact are sisters, not twins.