Cold-blooded Quotes

“The tent rustles in the breeze, and just then it feels like he and I are alone in the middle of this forest. Simply here because we want to be. Seeking nature, and each other.”
― Dekka Nye, Cold-blooded

“The boreal forest stretches out towards the horizon, its farthest reaches swallowed up by icy mists, while hundreds of lakes reflect the sky in vast constellations, glittering like shards of crystal.
This is it, I think. All of it. Everything I need, lit by the rising sun. A view no screen could ever replicate. A feeling no city could ever give me. Air that tastes like freedom. A temperature that could kill me, a fragile human extracted from my world of wires.”
― Dekka Nye, Cold-blooded

“Who am I now, alone in the wilderness? Who am I without my father, my sister? Who are we all, without this technology we’ve become so dependent on?”
― Dekka Nye, Cold-blooded

“Using the handrail as leverage, I haul myself upright and face the sea. It’s been many years since I left the shore but, with the infinite patience of an immortal entity, the ocean has waited. Knowing I would return one day.
‘Do you remember me?’ I grip the railing as rain blurs my vision. My rage is swallowed whole by the wind. ‘Is this the worst you can do?”
― Dekka Nye, Cold-blooded

“Despite all this, the wilderness calls to me more strongly with each passing year. Those distant mountains, always lingering in my peripheral vision, and the ancient forests. Immortal lungs of the earth.”
― Dekka Nye, Cold-blooded