The Forest in the Sky Quotes

“Courage isn’t the absence of fear, his mother had told him once, sitting beside his hospital bed. True courage is feeling afraid and doing it anyway.”
― Pari Thomson, The Forest in the Sky

“Daisy swallowed as her friend handed over the dandelight. It was beautiful, perfect, whole: perhaps the only whole and unbroken thing in the vast, burning world.”
― Pari Thomson, The Forest in the Sky

“Daisy thought of Artemis’s cottage, the Roost, perched at the top of a beech tree in the heart of Mallowmarsh—much smaller than the Root Trees of Amazeria, and infinitely cozier. She thought of the warm kitchen, and Miss Tufton making scones for tea, and her little attic room with the round window that looked out over the green lawns and sparkling glasshouses. She was filled with a wave of longing so powerful that it almost overwhelmed her. “We can really live at Mallowmarsh?” she asked, feeling a sort of bittersweet explosion in her chest. “Together?” “Yes,” said Ma.”
― Pari Thomson, The Forest in the Sky

“There was a great Christmas feast in the Orangery, where the long wooden tables were groaning with plates of food—golden roast chickens with crackling skins, and crisp hot roast potatoes, and carrots and parsnips covered in honey. There were round loafs of fresh bread studded with candied apples and walnuts, and wheels of cheese as creamy and rich as butter, along with jugs of mulled wine and hot apple cordial. There were platters of sweet cranberry Christmas cake, great tins of spiced Russian biscuits, and a real chocolate log that kept putting out more and more chocolate leaves and berries. The air was full of the smell of roasting chestnuts and vanilla cookies and the dizzying scent of sugar and cinnamon from the French toast”
― Pari Thomson, The Forest in the Sky

“She thought quickly, talked freely, laughed loudly, forgave easily.”
― Pari Thomson, Greenwild: The Forest in the Sky

“This plant, Albrecht - it is greater and more terrible than anything I have known. It is a thing with the power to change the course of the world.”
― Pari Thomson, The Forest in the Sky