Today is the day! In the Wild Light by Jeff Zentner is officially out in the world. This is definitely one of my favorite books that I’ve read this year and I can’t wait for everyone else to read it. In case you missed it, I also made a playlist for this book last week. It might be one of my favorite playlists I’ve made! Anyway, in honor of today’s release day, I thought I would share my top ten In the Wild Lights quotes.
Top Ten In the Wild Light Quotes
1. “You are not a creature of grief. You are not a congregation of wounds. You are not the sum of your losses. Your skin is not your scars. Your life is yours, and it can be new and wondrous.”
2. “Because for every way the world tries to kill us, it gives us a way to survive. You just gotta find it.”
3. “There are days when your heart is so filled with this world’s beauty, it feels like holding too much of something in your hand.”
4. “Fear tells you to make your life small. Fear tells you to think small. Fear tells you to be small-hearted. Fear seeks to preserve itself, and the bigger you let your life and perspective and heart get, the less air you give feat to survive.”
5. “Life often won’t freely give you moments of joy. Sometimes you have to wrench them away and cup them in your hands, to protect them from the wind and rain.”
6. “You pass through enough defeat, if feels like you’ll never taste victory’s sweetness. But then somehow you do, and for at least that moment, you can’t even remember a time when it wasn’t on your lips.”
7. “Being a poet takes bravery. Yes, the courage to bleed on a page. But also to bleed for the world we write poetry about. You have it and I’ve always seen it.”
8. “Words make me feel strong. They make me feel powerful and alive. They make me feel like I can open doors.”
9. “We think of language as this tame thing that lives in neat garden beds, bound by rules and fences. Then someone show it to you growing wild and beautiful, flowering vines consuming cities, erasing pavement and lines. Breaking.”
10. “Memory is a teather. Sometimes you get some slack in the line and you can play it out for a while. You forget and think you’re free. But you’ll always get to the end and realize it’s still there, binding you, reminding you of itself, reminding you that you belong to each other.”