The Starlit Wood Quotes

“She soaked her feet in salt and stared up at the stars and wondered whether drowning would hurt.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, The Starlit Wood

“I’m often amazed by the things we’re willing to endure that we would never allow our loved ones to suffer, and the double standards that govern the stories we tell ourselves. I treasure the ways in which friendship can undermine the poisonously seductive narratives we sometimes trap ourselves in, and I hope this story goes a little way toward celebrating the enormity of what friendship means to me.”
― Dominik Parisien, The Starlit Wood

“Falling’s easy—it’s keeping still that’s hard.”
― Dominik Parisien, The Starlit Wood

“But her anger about it is the anger of a dream, too, where no matter how much your skin itches from the insects laying eggs inside you, you can’t make a noise.”
― Dominik Parisien, The Starlit Wood

“It never stops consuming you, a child; not so long as it lives.”
― Dominik Parisien, The Starlit Wood