The Forest Demands Its Due Quotes

“Justice is supposed to be blind, but when a Black kid is an easy scapegoat, that blindness often comes at the expense of the truth.”
― Kosoko Jackson, The Forest Demands Its Due

“But just because you can, doesn't mean you should. The door you open by going down that path cannot be closed.”
― Kosoko Jackson, The Forest Demands Its Due

“The horror-movie enthusiast in me tells me this is where you're going to kill me.”
― Kosoko Jackson, The Forest Demands Its Due

“No one wants to accept there is something nefarious at work. Because once you admit that things actually do go bump in the night, you have to admit we're not alone. And that rabbit hole of dark thoughts you begin to go down? The what-ifs? It'll swallow you whole and it's fucking terrifying.”
― Kosoko Jackson, The Forest Demands Its Due

“You scream of wild magic and stink of hope.”
― Kosoko Jackson, The Forest Demands Its Due

“Humans are always afraid of what they don't understand and what will threaten their acceptable reality.”
― Kosoko Jackson, The Forest Demands Its Due

“Love isn't disgusting because a man loves a man, or a woman a woman, or anyone loves anyone.”
― Kosoko Jackson, The Forest Demands Its Due

“You're comfortable going headfirst into destroying a curse, but asking a boy out—that's too much for you?”
― Kosoko Jackson, The Forest Demands Its Due

“The Forest Demands Its Due is a story about power, love, pain, and the effect we have on one another’s lives, even if we don’t know it.”
― Kosoko Jackson, The Forest Demands Its Due

“I don’t need to trust you to be respectful.”
― Kosoko Jackson, The Forest Demands Its Due

“Usually, if I’m lucky, the dissonant voices hum in the background like white noise. But this time, they’re screaming. So loud I can barely hear myself think. A cacophony of twenty-plus voices, all saying everything and nothing at the same time, which blends together into one genderless, consistent, loud, never-ending noise.”
― Kosoko Jackson, The Forest Demands Its Due