《The God of the Woods》[50句]的其他句子
- The rich do not investigate. They preserve.
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- The summer people arrived with their finery and left with their secrets.
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- The God of the Woods was not a person. It was everything they had chosen not to see.
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- She understood, finally, that some people are lost not because they cannot find their way, but because they do not wish to be found.
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- The forest was patient. It had been there before the Van Laars and would be there long after.
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- A family that buries its past will eventually find the past digging its way back up.
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- They searched the lake, the caves, the trails. But the deepest secrets were kept in rooms with locked doors.
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- The woods were full of light and shadow, and it was impossible to tell where one ended and the other began.
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- He had always thought the worst thing that could happen was the loss of a child. He was wrong. The worst thing was knowing it could happen again.
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- There is no wilderness more dangerous than the one a family creates for its own children.
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- The older the family, the older its sins.
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- The campers sang songs around the fire while, somewhere in the dark, the truth waited to be discovered.
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- She realized that the question was not where Barbara had gone, but what Barbara had been running from.
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- The mountain held its breath. The lake was still. Everything was waiting.
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- Sometimes the search for a missing person reveals more about the people searching than about the one who is gone.
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- The Van Laars had taught their children to ride, to swim, to shoot. They had not taught them how to disappear gracefully.
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- There are two kinds of wilderness — the one outside your door and the one inside your head.
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- The detective understood that in these families, loyalty was a cage with a golden lock.
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- He loved the woods the way some people love the sea — with respect for its capacity to destroy.
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- Every missing person leaves behind a room full of questions and a house full of suspects.
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- She walked into the trees and felt, for the first time in years, that she was somewhere no one was watching.
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- The woods remembered everything, even when the people tried to forget.
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- Guilt is a slow poison. It doesn't kill you quickly — it just makes everything taste wrong.
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- The camp was a place where children were taught to be brave, but no one taught them what to be brave against.
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- Some people vanish into thin air. Others are pushed.
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- He had spent his whole life pretending not to see. That was the Van Laar way.
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- The children played at the edges of the woods as if the darkness beyond were simply another room in their house.
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- There was no such thing as a clean ending. Every story left debris.
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- She knew that asking questions was dangerous — not because of the answers, but because of what the questions revealed about the person asking.
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- Every family has a locked room. The Van Laars had an entire locked wing.
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