Among the Beasts & Briars Quotes

“Briars, brambles, bones, and blossom, I smell a girl who can’t be forgotten.”
― Ashley Poston, Among the Beasts & Briars

“I always thought that gardeners’ daughters couldn’t thrive where our roots didn’t grow. But maybe we were like dandelion tuffs.”
― Ashley Poston, Among the Beasts & Briars

“She said that the people who die never really leave. That we carry them with every breath we take, until the wind itself is gone.”
― Ashley Poston, Among the Beasts & Briars

“We were nine, and therefore invincible.”
― Ashley Poston, Among the Beasts & Briars

“What could go wrong? The sky’s bright, the sun’s out, and there’s spring in the air—I can taste it.”
― Ashley Poston, Among the Beasts & Briars

“Now, what's a pretty flower like you doing in a wood like this?”
― Ashley Poston, Among the Beasts & Briars

“The leaves on the trees we approached were a molten gold, like an artist had taken a sunset and poured it over the forest, and the crisp smell of the coming winter floated on the autumn breeze. It was early afternoon, and the birds sang bright and loud in the treetops.”
― Ashley Poston, Among the Beasts & Briars

“Where there was celebration, there was food, and where there was food, there was my happy place.”
― Ashley Poston, Among the Beasts & Briars

“IT IS SAID that the first king of Aloriya was born with the fire in his blood.”
― Ashley Poston, Among the Beasts & Briars

“But can you imagine? Me, dancing with that boorish, brainless . . .”
― Ashley Poston, Among the Beasts & Briars