The Dark Bones Quotes

“Once that whole valley was sage scrub. Nothing more. Until one little beaver dammed a small stream.” Silence. Wind rustles through autumn grasses. “A small act,” he says quietly, “that reshaped the future.” He looks at Ash. “The past doesn’t always have to write the future.”
― Loreth Anne White, The Dark Bones

“Olivia had also told her that all these trembling aspen trees were connected, one big organism joined by a root network underground. If you cut a tree up on this ridge, the others down in that grove would know. She wondered if they would all feel the pain of an ax strike at once.”
― Loreth Anne White, The Dark Bones

“How men are like little ants on the crust of the earth, busying themselves with all that is so important, but their lives and industry are just a blink in geological time, really. Borrowed time at that. Mother Earth has only to shrug a shoulder in her sleep, and all the little men and houses go tumbling and scattering, and the men go fleeing for safer sanctuary.”
― Loreth Anne White, The Dark Bones

“The past doesn’t always have to write the future.”
― Loreth Anne White, The Dark Bones

“But someone who hadn’t seen you in a long while registered the changes all at once, and it came as a shock.”
― Loreth Anne White, The Dark Bones

“Because the past writes the present, and the present writes the future, and sometimes the loop just cannot be broken.”
― Loreth Anne White, The Dark Bones

“so badly that I didn’t see my father. I didn’t understand the man—the real person he was deep down inside. The boy he once was, the dreams he might have still had. I didn’t think how terribly he had to have been hurting, too, because he always”
― Loreth Anne White, The Dark Bones

“Damaged kids were like seeds landed in the wrong ground. Parts of them grew crooked. But they could still grow strong with the right care.”
― Loreth Anne White, The Dark Bones

“what monsters might lurk in a man?”
― Loreth Anne White, The Dark Bones

“Right. Sometimes the questions are complicated, and the answers are simple.”
― Loreth Anne White, The Dark Bones

“Sometimes those closest are the most blind to the Monster who lives among them.”
― Loreth Anne White, The Dark Bones

“said.”
― Loreth Anne White, The Dark Bones