Mythago Wood Quotes

“Nothing has happened until it happens”
― Robert Holdstock, Mythago Wood

“his sense of danger, of what – just once – he called ‘ego’s mythological ideal’, the involvement of the creator’s mind which he feared would influence the shape and behaviour of the mythago forms. He had known of the danger, then, but I wonder if Christian had fully comprehended this most subtle of the occult processes occurring in the forest. From the darkness and pain of my father’s mind a single thread had emerged in the fashioning of a girl in a green tunic, dooming her to a helplessness in the forest that was contrary to her natural form.”
― Robert Holdstock, Mythago Wood: The Winner of the WORLD FANTASY AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL

“On the whole, he seems to have used the notebook, and the quiet hours of recording, as a way of conversing with himself – a means of clarification of his own thoughts.”
― Robert Holdstock, Mythago Wood: The Winner of the WORLD FANTASY AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL

“To each their own. Skills used unselfishly make for co-operation.”
― Robert Holdstock, Mythago Wood

“Menos de dos horas después de llegar, ya sabía que iba a quedarme. No porque me sintiera parte del lugar, aunque así era, sino porque aquel lugar me pertenecía. No en el sentido mercenario de la propiedad, sino porque la casa y sus alrededores habían compartido su vida conmigo.”
― Robert Holdstock, Mythago Wood

“Aseguraba que me sorprendería la encantadora muchacha por la que había perdido corazón, mente, alma, razón, talento para cocinar y casi todo lo demás.”
― Robert Holdstock, Mythago Wood