Beastkeeper Quotes

“Sarah had discovered that while she liked to ask questions in the hopes that someone or other could answer them, adults liked to ask questions they already knew the answers to. She wasn't sure why exactly that was, and had finally decided that as people grew older, the more important something was the easier it becomes for them to forget. They had to keep asking as a way to help them remember.”
― Cat Hellisen, Beastkeeper

“Sarah liked to think that night was the best time to work on staying silly and childish. Darkness always seemed more understanding about those sorts of things. More accommodating. Tonight”
― Cat Hellisen, Beastkeeper

“After all, there is nothing quite like losing a parent to knock the childishness out of a person’s spirit.”
― Cat Hellisen, Beastkeeper

“And know that the world exists, and moves on without me?” The beast settled back down, nose to tail, his horns gleaming in the faint light. “Thank you, no.”
― Cat Hellisen, Beastkeeper

“A strange moment when the world stayed exactly the same, and changed forever.”
― Cat Hellisen, Beastkeeper

“The cold…” Sarah ached. Her mother had always run from winter, a fawn racing away from a pack of snowy wolves.”
― Cat Hellisen, Beastkeeper

“Sarah wondered if at night the trees dreamed of a time when they covered the world and the true kings were wild and wore crowns of horns and antlers. Even”
― Cat Hellisen, Beastkeeper

“Sometimes we need to cry,” her father said. The moon shone around his shoulders, draping his hunched silhouette in a silver cloak that fell to his feet. He looked like a broken king, his hair a wild crown.”
― Cat Hellisen, Beastkeeper

“He smiled, slow as pouring honey, and the moon shone off his milky teeth and the white corners of his eyes. And”
― Cat Hellisen, Beastkeeper

“I'm sorry.' The words fell out onto the table and flew away like dandelion seeds, never reaching him.”
― Cat Hellisen, Beastkeeper

“Sarah tiptoed along the landing toward her parents' room and wondered what flavor silence was, and if it grew hard and brittle if you threw it away, or if people sometimes stepped on wads of discarded silence and it stuck to the soled of their shoes and made their footfalls softer.”
― Cat Hellisen, Beastkeeper

“Sarah had discovered that while she liked to ask questions in the hopes that someone or other could answer them, adults liked to ask questions they already knew the answers to. She wasn't sure why exactly that was, and had finally decided that as people grew older, the more important something was the easier it because for them to forget. They had to keep asking as a way to help them remember.”
― Cat Hellisen, Beastkeeper

“I'm just improbable.”
― Cat Hellisen, Beastkeeper