8 Quotes & Sayings By Colin Meloy

Colin Meloy is the author of the bestselling novel Wildwood, which has been translated into more than a dozen languages and won the World Fantasy Award and the Mythopoeic Award. He is also the author of The Crane Wife (winner of the World Fantasy Award and a finalist for the Hugo and Nebula), as well as The Ghost Brigades (winner of the World Fantasy Award) and The Wonderbook of Dune (winner of the World Fantasy Award). For his work on Wildwood, Meloy was nominated for a Lambda Literary award and received an American Library Association award and a Macmillan UK award. He lives with his family in Portland, Oregon.

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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First, the explosion of life. Then came the celebration. Such as it had been for generations and generations, as long as the eldest of the eldest could remember; as long as the record books had kept steady score. By the time the first buds were edging their green shoots from the dirt, the parade grounds had been cleared and the maypole had been pulled from its exile in the basement of the Mansion. The board had met and the Queen decided; all that was left was the wait. The wait for May. Colin Meloy