The Red Tree Quotes

“I know the ugly faces the moon makes when it thinks no one is watching.”
― Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Red Tree

“I am usually at my most brutally forthright when making shit up. That's the paradox of me.”
― Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Red Tree

“No one we knew ever believed that there was anything between us but the sex and some virulent allure, my dirty dishwater circling the drain of you. Not a pretty comparison but maybe it's the best we'll ever deserve, either of us.”
― Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Red Tree

“I shouldn’t be this tired when I try to find my way back to the tree. I’ll rest for a while, and I’ll drift back down to the orchard, and the stone wall. I’ll lie in my bed and wait. Someone has turned the ponies out again.”
― Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Red Tree

“No strings attached,” Constance said again. “Oh, there are always strings,” I replied. “Whether we put them there or not.”
― Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Red Tree

“ever you have happened on a grove set close with ancient trees grown beyond the common height, the pleaching of their branches one upon the other screening out sight of the sky, that loftiness of forest and solitude of place and sense of wonder at so dense and undisturbed a shade out in the open, will convince you of the presence of a god.”
― Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Red Tree

“appear in such canonical works of pulp fiction as Lovecraft’s “The Dunwich Horror” (1929) and Karl Edward Wagner’s “Sticks” (1974).”
― Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Red Tree