Through the Woods Quotes

“Oh, but you must travel through those woods again and again... said a shadow at the window... and you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time...

But the wolf... the wolf only needs enough luck to find you once.”
― Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

“It came from the woods. Most strange things do.”
― Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

“I married my love in the springtime,
but by summer he'd locked me away.
He'd murdered me dead by the autumn,
& by winter I was naught but decay.

It's cold where I am and so lonely,
but in loneliness I will remain.
Unloved, unavenged, & forgotten,
until I am whole once again.”
― Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

“...Came from the woods (most strange things do)”
― Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

“I dreamt I woke upon a boat.
A rocking boat.
A quiet boat.
On a smooth black sea we float.
Away, away
away.

I dreamt a Captain dressed in grey.
I dreamt I wore a long white coat.
I dreamt a stone caught in my throat.
I dreamt I choked
and choked
and choked.

A grey shore,
slopes decorated with dead trees and littered with our limbs.

I dreamt my legs were long and pale
made of smoke.
I choked and choked.
And when I woke I wrote and wrote
as though it all might just float
away!”
― Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

“But the worst kind of monster was the burrowing kind. The sort that crawled into you and made a home there. The sort you couldn't name, the sort you couldn't see. The monster that ate you alive from the inside out.”
― Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

“But the worst kind of monster was the BURROWING KIND. The sort that crawled into you and made a home there. The sort you couldn't name, the sort you couldn't see. The monster that ate you alive from the inside out.”
― Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

“They were so willing to spend so much love, so much pain, on people who weren't capable of appreciating it.”
― Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

“But the wolf...the wolf only needs enough luck to find you once.”
― Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

“you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time... but the wolf... the wolf only needs enough luck to find you once.”
― Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

“I married my love in the springtime,
but by summer he'd locked me away.
He'd murdered me dead by the autumn,
& by winter I was naught but decay.

It's cold where I am and so lonely,
but in loneliness I will remain,
unloved,
unavenged,
& forgotten,
until I am whole once again.”
― Emily Carroll, Through the Woods