Carol Goodman
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The Lake of Dead Languages
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2002
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Arcadia Falls
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2010
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The Sea of Lost Girls
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2020
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The Seduction of Water
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2003
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The Widow's House
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2017
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The Drowning Tree
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2004
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Blythewood (Blythewood, #1)
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2013
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The Stranger Behind You
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2021
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The Ghost Orchid
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2006
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The Other Mother
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2018
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“You told me trees could speak
and the only reason one heard
silence in the forest
was that they had all been born knowing different languages.
That night I went into the forest
to bury dictionaries under roots,
so many books in so many tongues
as to insure speech.
and now this very moment,
the forest seems alive
with whispers and murmurs and rumblings of sound
wind-rushed into my ears.
I do not speak any language
that crosses the silence around me
but how soothing to know
that the yearning and grasping embodied
in trees’ convoluted and startling shapes
is finally being fulfilled
in their wind shouts to each other.
Yet we who both speak English
and have since we were born
are moving ever farther apart
even as branch tips touch.”
― The Drowning Tree
and the only reason one heard
silence in the forest
was that they had all been born knowing different languages.
That night I went into the forest
to bury dictionaries under roots,
so many books in so many tongues
as to insure speech.
and now this very moment,
the forest seems alive
with whispers and murmurs and rumblings of sound
wind-rushed into my ears.
I do not speak any language
that crosses the silence around me
but how soothing to know
that the yearning and grasping embodied
in trees’ convoluted and startling shapes
is finally being fulfilled
in their wind shouts to each other.
Yet we who both speak English
and have since we were born
are moving ever farther apart
even as branch tips touch.”
― The Drowning Tree
“There’s always that first step in skating, from dry ground to slick ice, when it just seems impossible. Impossible that two thin blades of metal will support you, impossible that because its molecules have begun to dance a little slower water will hold you up.”
― The Lake of Dead Languages
― The Lake of Dead Languages
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