These Silent Woods Quotes
"Something wrong, I can feel it: a sting pricking the skin and stitching inward."
"But also: you relieve suffering when you can."
"Sometimes what’s right isn’t all that cut-and-dried, Finch. Hate to say it, but it’s true."
"One way or another—Finch and me and the chickens in this quiet pocket of woods—our life out here will not go on forever."
"If there is one thing I have learned in this life, it’s that it can all end, fast."
"Nothing can happen more beautiful than death."
"The truth is, sometimes Finch probes for answers that I simply cannot give her."
"I’ve kept track of the days and I am grateful for each one."
"The unreliable and often shifting line between right and wrong."
"You would get yourself into a certain mindset, shift gears, so to speak, and then you had to change back."
"Everything wrong from the start, beginning with trouble on the flight to Germany."
"By the time we actually hit the ground in Kabul, we were dehydrated and jet-lagged and worn out."
"Nothing worse than a pretty lady with a dirty mouth."
"I’ve tried to clean up the way I talk, in part out of respect for Jake."
"The thing the woman had been carrying—it was a cake."
"Regardless of what would’ve happened, I killed them, and I have to live with it."
"Even if it doesn’t damage your body, it damages your soul."
"The sun overhead, warm and bright against the still December sky."
"I can feel her head moving against me, her heart beating against my palm."
"She’s right: we can’t just hide behind the cabin all night."
"It has been ten years since we saw each other."
"Strange, hearing that name, after all these years."
"The situation dawns on me: We’re not living in Jake’s cabin, anymore."
"He was so small and weak. I doubt you would’ve recognized him."
"It’s like it’s the best accomplishment of our lives."
"You want us to come back out in a day or two?"
"You see something or hear something that seems a little fishy, get in your car and drive out to 86."
"Of course I can’t tell her about the day he waltzed into the yard with a crow on his shoulder."
"The gate. I should’ve trekked out and closed it, that first day."
"Put the gun away, Kenny. No need to be irrational here. We can work this out."
"I didn’t know if that was true, whether he’d intervened on my behalf, but this was no time to get into it."
"Didn’t intend for it to go like that," I said to Mrs. Judge, and I meant it.
"Everything’s all right now, sugar. Daddy made a mistake, letting you go, but I won’t ever do that again."
"Let’s get this straight, Cooper. A girl is missing. The police are out there doing their job."
"I want to know. I want to know why you’re really here."
"You should be ashamed of yourself," she says, so quiet I can barely hear.
"The worst part? I actually started to picture myself here. You and me and Finch, the three of us together."
"I understand what you’re trying to protect. But Cooper, that girl. If you and Finch saw her in the woods, one way or another, you need to tell the authorities."
"I can’t just keep that type of information to myself. It’s not right. Think of the girl’s parents."
"You know the worst part? I actually started to picture myself here. You and me and Finch, the three of us together."
"My whole life, people have said such things, but coming from Finch, it hurts."
"I couldn’t look at her. I hated both of them, and I suspected she was the one who pushed for getting CPS to take the baby."
"I can’t do it. Be with a person who lies. Who keeps secrets."
"I understand," I tell her, and I do, but the whole thing is more complicated than that."
"The Bible says it, too," Finch says, her voice a whisper.
"I can’t draw attention to us. I go to the police, Cindy’s parents find out about us, it’s over."
"I can’t do that to her," I whisper. "I can’t leave her."