Wake the Bones Quotes

“There's this feeling that comes over you when you're in the woods, like you're part of it. Caught in the inhale and exhale of life everlasting, a split second in the eternal life cycle of being. You get to thinking you're entwined in it when you spend so much time growing and killing and watching things give birth.”
― Elizabeth Kilcoyne, Wake the Bones

“If Garrett hadn’t been so stupid, he might have known how to spare himself the heartbreak. He might have known how not to want something he so obviously couldn’t have.”
― Elizabeth Kilcoyne, Wake the Bones

“He thought he’d have more time before he had to let Isaac go. He’d thought, after falling asleep with Isaac’s arm thrown heavy over his chest, his breathing easy and even in his ear, that they were finished keeping each other at arm’s length.”
― Elizabeth Kilcoyne, Wake the Bones