Character Quote by Jane Yolen

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Be like a tree. The tree gives shade even to him who cuts off its boughs.

— Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

“I watch the trees all dressed up in the Spring, While posing as they stand in line, Placing their best foot forward, showing off…

— Charmaine J Forde

“The end of the story is of your making, nobody else's. You can do with it as you choose. There are as many paths…

— Juliet Marillier

He stood up, put the tree back under the grow light. 'There. That's what's going to happen to us. It's called grafting. Taking something…

— Joan Bauer

“Some families have secrets buried so deep, they're the only thing holding the roots in the ground. You dig up those secrets, you loosen…

— Ni'chelle Genovese

“When a tree is lost, it can return to its roots to find it's routes.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“He got down easily by dropping uncontrollably from branch to branch until he landed on his head in a pile of pine needles, where…

— Terry Pratchett

Listen to the tree; it tells you where it wants to go!

— John Naka

“I never did understand why the tree was still happy at the end. The little boy used her until she was nothing but a…

— Allison Rivers

I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.

— Donald Miller

“What the hell are you doing up there?' So he slipped, of course, because he was startled, and because fate, having been so kind…

— Gregory Maguire