Mist Bound Quotes

“Sometimes, Sprout, the best way to move someone isn't to push them, but to hold their hand and walk with them.”
― Daryl Kho, Mist Bound: How to Glue Back Grandpa

“Spring first greets where Winter first hits,
Up on the mountain's peak, the First Flower will sit, where Dawn and Dusk first meet.”
― Daryl Kho, Mist Bound: How to Glue Back Grandpa

“Where Hope ends, Faith begins”
― Daryl Kho, Mist Bound: How to Glue Back Grandpa

“Eyes, she had been told, are windows to the soul.

Were his windows just misted over? Was Grandpa actually inside, standing behind the clouded glass, knocking back at her, calling out to her, from behind the fogged up frames?

Or, instead of a window, was he underwater, trapped beneath a frozen lake, desperately trying to break through the layers of ice?

Was he struggling, reaching out to her - her - a distant murky shadow from the surface out above?

Was he gasping for air? Was he shouting for help?

Scratching, clawing, banging from behind those misted windows...from where no one could hear him scream?

Was Grandpa already broken?

Had he already...drowned?

Alexis shivered.

No. I refuse to believe that. You're still in there and we are going to pull you back out.”
― Daryl Kho, Mist Bound: How to Glue Back Grandpa

“Those impenetrable walls of iron and ice, those unyielding pillars of resilence and strength, those unbending shoulders of steel that held up the world. Crumbling, tumbling, tearing down. With every drop that fell like shards of glass and ice, unto the timber floor”
― Daryl Kho, Mist Bound: How to Glue Back Grandpa

“Sometimes the ones who smile the widest, hide the most troubled tears, and those who roar the loudest laughs, do so to drown the saddest frowns.”
― Daryl Kho, Mist Bound: How to Glue Back Grandpa

“What are dreams but memories just waiting to be made?
Like ink, waiting to be spilt unto paper and woven into words.”
― Daryl Kho, Mist Bound: How to Glue Back Grandpa

“What are dreams but memories just waiting to be made?”
― Daryl Kho, Mist Bound: How to Glue Back Grandpa

“Stories are the soil upon which dreams grow, and dreams are the buds within which Hope dwells.”
― Daryl Kho, Mist Bound: How to Glue Back Grandpa