Colin Meloy > Quotes

“We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we the children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos.”
― Colin Meloy, Wildwood

“As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now.”
― Colin Meloy, Wildwood

“And I am a writer, writer of fictions
I am the heart that you call home
And I've written pages upon pages
Trying to rid you from my bones...”
― Colin Meloy

“An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.”
― Colin Meloy

“My dear Prue, we are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos. It is a hopeless task.”
― Colin Meloy, Wildwood

“Sometimes, when the world is falling apart around you, all that's left to do is dance, right?”
― Colin Meloy, Under Wildwood

“It is better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us.”
― Colin Meloy

“There's as much benefit to wishing the world away as there is in demanding a bud to bloom," responded Iphigenia as she patted Prue's hand gently. "It's better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us.”
― Colin Meloy, Wildwood

“You're riding a runaway train into a tunnel that leads into a station where there's a welcome-home party from all your worst nightmares”
― Colin Meloy, Under Wildwood

“Was there ever any doubt?
And as the spotlights fade away,
And you're escorted through the foyer,
You will resume your callow ways,
But I was meant for the stage.”
― Colin Meloy

“Meditation. That's the key. Supposedly. Calming your mind ind total silence. Understanding your connection to the natural world and all that. You do that, and you can hear it. All the talking.”
― Colin Meloy, Wildwood

“And at that very moment, when the kiss was laid on the boy's head, and the mother's arm were firmly wrapped around her child as they'd been when she'd first held him, when she'd first cradled him as a baby, when she'd held him as a child crying over some lost bauble, when she'd held him as a boy when a fever had come on strong, when she'd held him as a young man in the full throat of summer, and when the horse had thrown him and he lay motionless on the flagstones and she'd held him then- at that very moment, the ivy ceased its endless writhings and lapsed into immobility and fell quiet.”
― Colin Meloy, Wildwood Imperium

“Wildwood,”
― Colin Meloy, Wildwood

“I just saw her. She was so … alive.”
― Colin Meloy, Under Wildwood

“My dear Prue, we are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we the children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos. It is a hopeless task.”
― Colin Meloy, Wildwood

“single car waited helplessly at a dormant traffic light;”
― Colin Meloy, Wildwood

“I'VE BEEN SMOTE”
― Colin Meloy, Under Wildwood

“Septimus, if the ivy needs to consume a human child to become all-powerful, it’s safe to assume it’s the invasive stuff.”
― Colin Meloy, Wildwood

“That, combined with the look of absolute rage on their faces, gave them the likeness of furies released from the depths to wage chaos on the living world”
― Colin Meloy, Under Wildwood

“That's the beauty of things, right? People should be able to believe what they want to, follow who they want to”
― Colin Meloy, Wildwood Imperium

“Prue felt like someone had bored a hole in her stomach the size of a basketball”
― Colin Meloy, Wildwood

“As Desdemona continued on about the administrative details of the business, her eyelids lazing at half-mast all the while, Elsie’s attention was drawn to the decorations on the office’s walls. She had always assumed that dust could only collect on a horizontal surface, but the Unthank Home’s drab green walls proved otherwise—a thin sheen of gray dust seemed to nearly act as a second coat of paint.”
― Colin Meloy, Under Wildwood

“Oddly enough, the old mole sported a long white beard, which Curtis didn't recall being something that mole typically did”
― Colin Meloy, Under Wildwood

“We want more than chocolate cake," said Rachel. "We need your help."
Jacques seemed unflustered by the girl's sudden impatience. "But chocolate cake is a good starting point, oui?”
― Colin Meloy, Wildwood Imperium

“Can you send in guards?" asked Prue. "To, you know, get things under control?"
"We tried that," said the attaché. "Only gets them more riled up. They start getting oppressed when you do that.”
― Colin Meloy, Wildwood Imperium

“This was all in the making, a long time ago. You had as much control over these events as a leaf does in the time of its falling.”
― Colin Meloy

“Snow as white as a swan's feather, white as a trillium bloom.”
― Colin Meloy, Under Wildwood

“Sure, Desdemona, at the receptionist's age, and seeing some poor woman in a second-hand gown and a plaster-cast of makeup to cover the encroaching menaces of age - wouldn't she have shot the same withering glance?”
― Colin Meloy, Under Wildwood

“THE OVERDWELLERS CALL FOR MANNA! QUICK, THE GRANOLA BARS!”
― Colin Meloy, Under Wildwood

“And now you have to come out of hiding - even though your life is threatened by a shape-changing assassin - to walk however many miles in a snowstorm to go talk to a tree."
"Yup."
"I'm coming with you," said Curtis”
― Colin Meloy, Under Wildwood