Quote by Patrick deWitt

“My ma always said the word damn came from beavers who gave up on their houses one stick short.”

— Charlie N. Holmberg

“Your beaver is huge.”

— Ashley Pullo

“Hey, when two beavers walk into the house, the first one always tells the other one, “Hey, shut the dam door!”

— Si Robertson

“I forgot that with the green, the plushness, and shiny plant life that pushed up and surrounded us, with the nourishment it provided came—the…

— Lauren Nicolle Taylor

“The trees seemed to have eyes that were watching us and reaching out for me. They began to take on the shape of the…

— Amber Newberry

“The deep woods can be very dangerous. Dangerous, dangerous, dangerous and weird. And weird weird.”

— Anonymous

“Very few things escape my attention in the springlands—even the plucking of a flower.” I looked at the cowslip guiltily.”

— Margaret Rogerson

“I had been afraid of the primitive, had wanted it broken gently, but here it came on us in a breath, as we stumbled…

— Graham Greene

“Is this where the light faded out forever? Where the cat was finally killed by caught tongue? Where hand no longer wandered over curious…

— Mellon Black

“that silent vastness of fire and ice that said in enormous letters of black and white DEATH, DEATH, written right across a continent. The…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“As we neared the water, I pointed out an antique taxidermy shop. "My mom and I used to always go in there," I said.…

— Amy Plum

“The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren't any other kind and yet I found myself thinking how…

— Octavia E. Butler