Hello and Welcome. This page is a collection of 10 quotes that I liked and saved while reading The God of the Woods book by Liz Moore. I hope you will like them too.
By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.
The God of the Woods Quotes
- Time is a human construct, it can slow or accelerate in the presence of emotion, of chemicals in the blood.
- Part of a mother’s duty was to be her daughter’s first, best critic; to fortify her during her childhood, so that in womanhood she could gracefully withstand any assault or insult launched in her direction.
- To panic, was to make an enemy of the forest. To stay calm was to be its friend.
- To be a human is complex, and often painful; to be an animal is comfortingly simple and good.
- Lately I’ve been wondering whether having all of our material needs met from birth has been a positive aspect of our lives. It seems to me it may have resulted in some absence of yearning or striving in us. The quest, I like to call it. When one’s parents or grandparents have already quested and conquered, what is there for subsequent generations to do?
- Kissing someone – someone you want to kiss, I mean – is like living inside the best song you ever heard. It’s the same feeling.
- Rich people generally become most enraged when they sense they’re about to be held accountable for their wrongs.
- The quickest way to make an attractive man ugly was to give him too much to drink.
- Too many generations with too much money. It addles the brain. You ever notice how the children of rich people are never as smart as the parents? Never as ambitious, never as successful? You gotta have something to strive for in life. What I think, anyway.
- It was funny, she thought, how many relationships one could have with the same man, over the course of a lifetime together.