Where the Forest Meets the Stars Quotes

“People think they have to say something, and it never makes me feel better.” “I know. I’ve decided language isn’t as advanced as we think it is. We’re still apes trying to express our thoughts with grunts while most of what we want to communicate stays locked in our brains.”
― Glendy Vanderah, Where the Forest Meets the Stars

“sometimes bad things happen to make good things happen.”
― Glendy Vanderah, Where the Forest Meets the Stars

“Art is supposed to represent how you see the world, not exactly copy it.”
― Glendy Vanderah, Where the Forest Meets the Stars

“Nothing like stars to show us our little arguments are meaningless.”
― Glendy Vanderah, Where the Forest Meets the Stars

“The horrific crush of humanity on my soul. Haven’t you ever felt it?” “I think I have—in Walmart.” “Yes! That place is the worst!”
― Glendy Vanderah, Where the Forest Meets the Stars

“When I knew my mother would be dead in a few months, I had two choices . . .” She looked at him. “I could distance myself from the pain or get closer to it. Maybe because I’d lost my dad without getting a chance to tell him what he meant to me, I decided to get closer. I got so close, her pain and fear became my own. We shared everything and loved each other like we never had when death was some distant thing. In the end, part of me died with her. I’m not recovered from it even now, but I made the conscious choice to enter the darkness with her. Everyone I know who’s lost someone they love has voiced regrets—they wish they’d done this or that or loved them more. I have no regrets. None.”
― Glendy Vanderah, Where the Forest Meets the Stars

“Why do men often call smart women devious?”
― Glendy Vanderah, Where the Forest Meets the Stars

“I’m sick. I can’t just ‘recover and move on.’” “If you believe that, you won’t.” “Like most people who’ve never experienced it, your view of depression is optimistically misguided.”
― Glendy Vanderah, Where the Forest Meets the Stars

“survivors can live and love more fully than people who haven’t stared death in the face.”
― Glendy Vanderah, Where the Forest Meets the Stars

“Gabe started to live as Ursa did, in an infinite present disconnected from the past or future.”
― Glendy Vanderah, Where the Forest Meets the Stars

“If she’d learned one thing in the last two years, it was that life could be hard enough without adding petty resentments.”
― Glendy Vanderah, Where the Forest Meets the Stars

“As always, words fail when you most want to say the right thing.”
― Glendy Vanderah, Where the Forest Meets the Stars

“Remember that feeling you described—the ‘horrific crush of humanity’ on your soul—maybe that’s another way of saying you’re afraid people will hurt you if you let them get close.”
― Glendy Vanderah, Where the Forest Meets the Stars

“the flower whisperer who made everyone and everything around her bloom. Her light is still with us, growing love across the universe.”
― Glendy Vanderah, Where the Forest Meets the Stars

“You don’t have to say anything.” He sat back in his chair. “I won’t. As always, words fail when you most want to say the right thing.” “People think they have to say something, and it never makes me feel better.” “I know. I’ve decided language isn’t as advanced as we think it is. We’re still apes trying to express our thoughts with grunts while most of what we want to communicate stays locked in our brains.” “This from the son of a literature professor?”
― Glendy Vanderah, Where the Forest Meets the Stars

“We’re at the creek catching fish with a holey net. Understandably, this may take some time. Come join us if you enjoy frustration.”
― Glendy Vanderah, Where the Forest Meets the Stars

“She’s kind of like a baby. She didn’t know she was supposed to grow up, and that makes her more fun than other grown-up people.”
― Glendy Vanderah, Where the Forest Meets the Stars

“PLEASE DON’T LITTER. SPAY AND NEUTER YOUR CRITTER!”
― Glendy Vanderah, Where the Forest Meets the Stars

“Like most people who’ve never experienced it, your view of depression is optimistically misguided.”
― Glendy Vanderah, Where the Forest Meets the Stars

“Lots of crazy people are smart.”
― Glendy Vanderah, Where the Forest Meets the Stars

“there was a big amazing world beyond the borders of my sad little country—”
― Glendy Vanderah, Where the Forest Meets the Stars

“Dealing with the pain was a day-by-day ordeal.”
― Glendy Vanderah, Where the Forest Meets the Stars

“Why won’t you believe I’m from the stars?”
― Glendy Vanderah, Where the Forest Meets the Stars

“Jo had absorbed many of her parents’ philosophies, and one of them was the belief that children deserved to be told the truth as much as possible.”
― Glendy Vanderah, Where the Forest Meets the Stars

“I’ve decided language isn’t as advanced as we think it is. We’re still apes trying to express our thoughts with grunts while most of what we want to communicate stays locked in our brains.”
― Glendy Vanderah, Where the Forest Meets the Stars

“Art was a form of self-soothing for Ursa. When she wanted something or missed someone, she would often draw whatever it was to satisfy her need.”
― Glendy Vanderah, Where the Forest Meets the Stars

“The horrific crush of humanity on my soul. Haven’t you ever felt it?”
― Glendy Vanderah, Where the Forest Meets the Stars

“I’m from another planet. My people can make good things happen.”
― Glendy Vanderah, Where the Forest Meets the Stars

“You don’t have to say anything.”
He sat back in his chair.
“I won’t. As always, words fail when you most
want to say the right thing.”
“People think they have to say something, and it never makes me feel better.”
― Glendy Vanderah, Where the Forest Meets the Stars

“He brought leftover cauliflower in cheese sauce for dinner.
“Not yuckyflower!” Ursa said. “Jo made me eat it last night!”
“This has gooey cheese on it,” he said, “and gooey cheese makes anything, even dirt, taste delicious.”
“Can I eat dirt instead?”
― Glendy Vanderah, Where the Forest Meets the Stars