The Trees Quotes

“You can’t wait for the world to be perfect before you start living in it.”
― Ali Shaw, The Trees

“...it's survival of the fittest, not the strongest or the biggest.”
― Ali Shaw, The Trees

“Among the many fox magics her sobo had delighted in describing, the one that had most captured her imagination was the power to alter form. The most eldritch among foxes could turn (or so her grandmother would claim in that musical croak that was her storytelling voice) into human beings. The they would creep into the lives of lonely and impressionable souls and offer them long-sought affection.”
― Ali Shaw, The Trees

“Adrien knew it was not a strong man whom the whisperers had been searching for. Strong men only drove the world to ruin.”
― Ali Shaw, The Trees

“The proposal thus surmounted, it had seemed to him that the hard work was over, and that all that remained was to live out their lives in wedded bliss.”
― Ali Shaw, The Trees

“Sometimes, just when she thought Seb was made out of wires and circuit boards, he came up with ideas so romantic that she wanted to throw her arms around him and bury a kiss in his hair. Were he only her little boy again, the one he had been not so many years ago, she would have done so there and then.”
― Ali Shaw, The Trees

“Time had trampled through this churchyard and left behind, as time always did, the sense that just because things had progressed, they were progressing towards a goal.”
― Ali Shaw, The Trees

“What good is being in love with a person, if it only binds you to a thousand quiet disappointments, and new problems for every one that you fix?”
― Ali Shaw, The Trees

“I swear," said Adrian, meaning it, "because I must.”
― Ali Shaw, The Trees