The Wilds & The Weeds Quotes

“It had been building inside Summer for days. Weeks, even. A newfound confidence. And she was constantly wanting, now that she’d realized how good it could be.”
― Ally North, The Wilds & The Weeds

“You know how you reach a certain age and you realize your parents are just people? Like, just as flawed and fucked up as we are?”
― Ally North, The Wilds & The Weeds

“And it wasn’t that Summer was afraid of the shattering—actually, the pull to break free was becoming increasingly hard to ignore—but what came after, that was what gave Summer pause. When the marble was rubble at her feet, what could possibly be left standing, when the façade was all she’d ever known?”
― Ally North, The Wilds & The Weeds

“They were crumbs, Summer realized, and drunk as she was she didn’t want to forget them. Like the story Ford had told about prison. Little tidbits of truth that Summer was starting to pocket like items on a scavenger hunt. Maybe once she collected enough of them, she’d see the whole of Ford. Who she was beneath the smooth, protective surface.”
― Ally North, The Wilds & The Weeds

“Fontaine de Jouvence,” Thea said, nodding at the sign. “Fountain of Youth.”
― Ally North, The Wilds & The Weeds

“Born with wings, flying at last.”
― Ally North, The Wilds & The Weeds

“What I find interesting is that you claim your parents’ deaths are of little consequence, yet growing up, your favorite book was about immortality. About a family who is physically incapable of dying.”
― Ally North, The Wilds & The Weeds

“It was a formidable entry, rich in the architectural overcompensation of men.”
― Ally North, The Wilds & The Weeds

“Turns out it’s for that treehouse he’s building—a bell”
― Ally North, The Wilds & The Weeds

“But isn’t that what awaits us all, in the end? To live, and then to one day be forgotten?”
― Ally North, The Wilds & The Weeds

“But isn’t that what awaits us all”
― Ally North, The Wilds & The Weeds