Shea Ernshaw > Quotes

“Love is an enchantress—devious and wild. It sneaks up behind you, soft and gentle and quiet, just before it slits your throat.”
― Shea Ernshaw, The Wicked Deep

“We wait for death. We hold our breath. We know it's coming, and still we flinch when it claws at our throats and pulls us under.”
― Shea Ernshaw, The Wicked Deep

“Because I am more darkness than girl. More winter shadow than August sunlight.”
― Shea Ernshaw, Winterwood

“Perhaps it's easier: being alone. Building walls. A solitary life with no one to lose. No one to break your heart.”
― Shea Ernshaw, Winterwood

“This town was built on revenge,” I say. “And it’s never made anything better or right.”
― Shea Ernshaw, The Wicked Deep

“But magic was not always so linear. It was born from odium. From love. From revenge.”
― Shea Ernshaw, The Wicked Deep

“I once read a poem about love being fragile, as thin as glass and easily broken.

But that is not the kind of love that survives in a place like this. It must be hardy and enduring. It must have grit.”
― Shea Ernshaw, The Wicked Deep

“I might love him. And it has tilted my universe off center, the frayed edges of my life starting to unravel. Loving someone is dangerous. It gives you something to lose.”
― Shea Ernshaw, The Wicked Deep

“It's like a fairytale suspended in time-the princess forgotten, the hero eaten whole by a noble Fir goblin. The story ended, but no one remembered to burn the haunted forest to the ground.”
― Shea Ernshaw, Winterwood

“There is no history in a place until we make it, until you live a life worth remembering.”
― Shea Ernshaw, A History of Wild Places

“No one sees that I have just as many wounds as everyone else. That I too am a little broken.”
― Shea Ernshaw, Winterwood

“I don't want to be alone. I don't want the crack inside me to widen, for the ocean of loneliness to creep in. I don't want to drown.”
― Shea Ernshaw, Winterwood

“Loving someone is dangerous. It gives you something to lose.”
― Shea Ernshaw, The Wicked Deep

“She's not weak, she's not frail or breakable or scared of much. She is the storm that tears away roofs and knocks over trees.”
― Shea Ernshaw, Winterwood

“There’re always reasons to stay,” he says. “You just need to find one reason to leave.”
― Shea Ernshaw, The Wicked Deep

“No thinking, just doing. When you think about things too long, you just talk yourself out of them.”
― Shea Ernshaw, The Wicked Deep

“We’re all just passing ships; no point forming friendships that won’t last.”
― Shea Ernshaw, The Wicked Deep

“A tree all alone may grow hatred in its bark and moth-eaten leaves, but an entire forest can weave malice so deep and well-rooted that no safe passage can be made through such a place”
― Shea Ernshaw, Winterwood

“There are legends of mermaids who fall in love with sailors, their devotion granting them a human form. I read about the Irish tales of selkies shedding their sealskins, marrying a human man, and staying on land forever.”
― Shea Ernshaw, The Wicked Deep

“I'm certain that love can be a wound, deep and saw-toothed and filled with salt. But sometimes it's worth it.”
― Shea Ernshaw, Winterwood

“I once read a poem about love being fragile, as thin as glass and easily broken.”
― Shea Ernshaw, The Wicked Deep

“To the readers of this story, if you find yourself in a dark wood, without a match to light the way. Be your own light.”
― Shea Ernshaw, Winterwood

“Her name is Nora Walker.
I don’t know anything about her, yet somehow I remember the arch of her smile. The soft river of her hair. The flutter of her eyes when she watches me. The scent of her skin like jasmine and vanilla. And when her lips purse together and she hums a song under her breath, memories I can’t possibly have pour through me. She is a name and a heartbeat that lives inside me.”
― Shea Ernshaw, Winterwood

“Locked doors are better than friends you can't trust.”
― Shea Ernshaw, Winterwood

“The sunlight catches his eyes, making the dark green seem like pieces of emerald glass, an entire world contained within them.”
― Shea Ernshaw, The Wicked Deep

“She is just a girl.

With raven hair and crush-your-heart-in-half eyes.”
― Shea Ernshaw, Winterwood

“Silence can hold a thousand untold stories." (14)”
― Shea Ernshaw, A History of Wild Places

“No matter where you go, there are cracks in the plaster, nails coming loose, you just have to decide where you want to piece yourself back together.”
― Shea Ernshaw, A History of Wild Places

“If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. —Loren Eiseley”
― Shea Ernshaw, The Wicked Deep

“Can the fool of a story also be the hero?”
― Shea Ernshaw, Long Live the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas