What Happens in the Forest Quotes

“Redbird, redbird, fly away home. Your house is on fire and your children are gone. All except one, and her name is Ann. And she hid alongside the crying man.”
― Kennedy Cannon, What Happens in the Forest

“For the majority of Hawthorne, the first of May passed without cause.
But for those who had been raised in families where magpies were always saluted and spilled salt was always thrown over the left shoulder, it meant a day of celebration. Fires were lit and May baskets were exchanged between friends. Offerings of dainty cakes and honey were left at the edge of the forest.”
― Kennedy Cannon, What Happens in the Forest

“Carolyn's father said she was too old for stories, but she thought eleven wasn't too old for anything—except diapers and maybe Sesame Street.”
― Kennedy Cannon, What Happens in the Forest

“Trees are very good at riddles.”
― Kennedy Cannon, What Happens in the Forest

“He bent his head in answer, and his lips met mine.
I crumpled to ash in his fingers.”
― Kennedy Cannon, What Happens in the Forest