The Haunted Forest Trilogy Quotes

“You are the mountain, but awake.
You are the rain, but breathing.
You are the forest, but unanchored.
You are the soil, but with choice.
You are the sunlight, but dreaming.
Soon, you will be all these things again.
Mountain. Rain. Forest. Sunlight.
So, what will you do until then?”
― Jarod K. Anderson, The Haunted Forest Trilogy

“Step inside my cabin and hang your coat by
the door.
You smell of snowfall and hemlock boughs.
I just fed the stove and the logs are
whispering like radio static.
Soon, that white lace on your boots will
pool on the floorboards,
making them shine like polished stone.
Rest here as long as you like.
It's not trouble that our meeting place is
imaginary.
Many worthwhile things are.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, The Haunted Forest Trilogy

“Moss doesn't race trees skyward hunting
for sunlight.
It thrives just the same.
When your mind hisses like a kettle,
look to your elders, to the green lessons
of soft, simplet quiet beneath the sun.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, The Haunted Forest Trilogy

“The danger in trying to hide who you are is
that you'll succeed,
and you'll start to see a stranger in the
mirror of other people.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, The Haunted Forest Trilogy

“The rat will adapt to most any landscape.
The beaver will gnaw and slap and drag the landscape to fit her needs.
I can't tell you which is better.
Just reminding you that both are options.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, The Haunted Forest Trilogy

“We need the poetic lens because
quantifying
the physical properties of iron isn't quite
the same
as weighing the significance of how the
iron in our blood
connects us to the planet beneath our feet,
to the heat of ancient stars.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, The Haunted Forest Trilogy

“Feeling deeply is dangerous.
Doing anything else is tragic.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, The Haunted Forest Trilogy

“Many things are made with love, with care,
with intention.
Some purchases make us consumers,
some make us a community.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, The Haunted Forest Trilogy

“Leaf litter on the forest floor,
slowly becoming soil,
does not represent the failure
of past summers' trees.
It is the process by which the past
nourishes the present and future.
The same is true for my old selves,
my bygone passions,
last season's interests.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, The Haunted Forest Trilogy

“Life is a poem

It doesn't give us everything.
Just some things.
Two sturdy branches.
A basket of dawns.
If we stitch our web there,
and the morning strings it with dew,
the beauty isn't a gift.
It's a partnership.
Because life, like poetry,
means only what we let it mean.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, The Haunted Forest Trilogy

“Next time you skin both knees
falling short of your hopes,
try, oh well.
It's not a celebration of defeat,
but it is a celebration,
a farewell party for a hurt exiting our
present moment,
a whispered thanks that we can endure.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, The Haunted Forest Trilogy

“Yes, one day we'll be dust and echoes.
Yet, how incredible it is that today
we are not.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, The Haunted Forest Trilogy

“Every memory is a ghost and the house they haunt is you.
27-year-old me is gone from the world, but echoes of him remain.
The same is true for 17-year-old me and 7 year-old me.
Those people no longer exist.
But I hear their footsteps in the attic,
walking where I can't
where I will join them
in the memory of a future me.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, The Haunted Forest Trilogy

“The universe is an event, not a place. Don’t seek to own. Witness.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, The Haunted Forest Trilogy

“We borrow our atoms. The universe owns them. The universe borrows our love and wonder. Those belong to us.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, The Haunted Forest Trilogy