The Forest of Hands and Teeth Quotes

Now I sometimes fear coming to the edge of the Forest and looking past the fence. I am afraid I will see him there with the others: tattered clothes, sagging skin, the horrible pleading moan and th...

Often, my mother stands next to me holding her hand up over her eyes to block the sun and looking out past the fences and into the trees and brush, waiting to see if her husband will come home to h...

The Sisters tell us that ours is the only village left in the world. (1.8)

Marriage in our village is not about love—it is about commitment. (1.18)

"That is why you must leave Travis alone. I have watched the way you covet him. But he is not for you." […]I don't know what to say or how to respond and so I nod, the pain inside me too intense....

If I could boil my life down to its essence it would be this: my head in my mother's lap, her hands in my hair as we sit in front of the fire and she tells me stories handed down by the women in ou...

I have been alternating between hope that my mother turns quickly and dread that she will turn too quickly and I will have lost her forever. (2.14)

And the widow made an excellent point: the only thing that separated the living from the Unconsecrated is choice, free will. She wanted the choice to be with her husband. […] I can't fathom leavi...

My mother used to tell me about the ocean. She said there was a place where there was nothing but water as far as you could see and that it was always moving, rushing toward you and then away. (1.1)

I should have been with her. (1.41)