Out of the Woods Quotes

“If you give me the space to grow, I’ll plant myself next to you. Always.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out of the Woods

“When you’re not near, you occupy every corner of my life. Half of my thoughts are about you. All of my dreams involve you. My hopes and fears and purpose revolve around you.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out of the Woods

“It can sometimes be difficult for me to feel grateful for what I have because I’m thinking about what I’ve lost or what I could lose. I feel directionless, because I don’t really know my own feelings or wants or desires. I just sort of live in some…middle.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out of the Woods

“Life kept going, the Earth kept spinning, everyone moved on, but I stayed still.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out of the Woods

“I want you to understand that you can be anything but not everything. And, sometimes, you have to make a choice for yourself, right or wrong, before life makes it for you. I don’t want you to let anyone tell you not to try just because you might fail.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out of the Woods

“Out of the Woods is my love letter to all of us who met their soulmate before they had the chance to fully meet themselves. I wanted to write a story that reflected the delicate dance of being madly, deeply in love with your significant other but desperately seeking independence, evolution, and change.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out of the Woods

“A lot of people will say relationships are fifty-fifty, but I think that’s a load of rubbish. We all have seasons and periods where we require more from our partner. The trick to a long, lasting relationship in my professional experience is not getting stuck at a set percentage.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out of the Woods

“Thank you for bringing him into my life exactly when I needed him. For allowing me to find my soulmate earlier than most so I would never have to be alone.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out of the Woods

“I felt as if my mother was the only person who could help me grieve her. How could she leave me to do that alone?”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out of the Woods

“I drink too much. I tease too much. I spend too much. I’m clingy, ungrateful, lazy, dependent, judgmental, harsh, critical, brash, needy, unaccomplished…all the ways I don’t measure up to my potential. The potential he saw in me before I saw it in myself. That he has, no doubt, painfully watched go to waste over the years.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out of the Woods

“You and Caleb have made a beautiful sweater together, babe. But it’s been over a decade and clothes wear out over time. Maybe it wasn’t made well enough to begin with, considering all that you were going through when it was first put together and how young you both were. But now, you have the chance to make something new. Something that will last. And the yarn is good.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out of the Woods

“It’s the cursed roles we’ve been stuck in since the eleventh grade. The gallant knight riding in on his white horse is here to save me once again. And shit, if being the damsel in distress isn’t getting old.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out of the Woods

“Humans are typically just stumbling through this life, making mistakes and trying again. Anyone who says anything different is trying to sell something.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out of the Woods

“What’s the worst that could happen?” “I squat to take a shit in the woods and my vagina grazes poison ivy.” She blinks at me, stunned. “Wow, your mind didn’t even hesitate to come up with that scenario.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out of the Woods

“I am a simple creature, at my core. Give me books, sunlight, water, and a handsome man looking at me like I’m some rare jewel, and I’m all set. Especially when it feels like a long time since I’ve shined for him.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out of the Woods

“It can sometimes be difficult for me to feel grateful for what I have because I’m thinking about what I’ve lost or what I could lose. I feel directionless, because I don’t really know my own feelings or wants or desires. I just sort of live in some…middle. Not really pleasing myself or performing what is expected of me.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out of the Woods

“If you give me the space to grow, I'll plant myself next to you.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out of the Woods

“I brought it and a solar charger. I didn’t want you to lose your reading streak. Downloaded a couple of extra books too.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out of the Woods

“I am a simple creature, at my core. Give me books, sunlight, water, and a handsome man looking at me like I'm some rare jewel, and I'm all set.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out of the Woods

“I want to be the only man lucky enough to be loved by you.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out of the Woods

“I want you to understand that you can be anything but not everything. And, sometimes, you have to make a choice for yourself, right or wrong, before life makes it for you. I don’t want you to let anyone tell you not to try just because you might fail. Failure is simply an opportunity for those who have time. And you will have so much time.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out of the Woods

“It can sometimes be difficult for me to feel grateful for what I have because I’m thinking about what I’ve lost or what I could lose.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out of the Woods

“I miss my tits,” I answer, keeping this thin filter between my mouth and brain intact. “The way they used to be,”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out of the Woods

“I’m incapable of ever becoming a productive, helpful, functioning member of society because I can’t seem to move past shit that happened over a decade ago.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out of the Woods

“kept my brain occupied enough to avoid slipping back into that dark place. And when reality crept in to an uncomfortable degree—I’d escape with books.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out of the Woods

“I cannot afford to go to jail, I have a gluten sensitivity. Prison food would turn my gut into a tear-gas factory.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out of the Woods

“You cannot throw your whole life away because one event didn’t go as planned.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out of the Woods

“I honestly am starting to wonder if I’m some sort of…NPC or something.” Win blinks, her eyelashes fluttering rapidly. She opens her mouth to speak, shuts it, then shakes her head. “Wait—what’s an NPC?” “A non-player character,” I answer. She’s still confused, open mouth staring at me. “Like from a video game? The characters who exist the moment the main player needs them to and then, presumably, disappear when offscreen—existing in some empty void.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out of the Woods

“I think maybe that’s the issue. We’ve been letting shit pile up for years, ignoring it like the bills on our moms’ kitchen table. But now they’re all past due and we’re too tired to deal with it all.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out of the Woods

“In just under two months Win and Bo will officially open Camp Cando. A summer camp she has designed for kids with varying disabilities, and their families, to explore nature and have community with one another.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Out of the Woods