Cry Wolf Quotes
"No one knew better than Walter Rice that the only safe place was away from other people. Safe for them, that is."
"To his shame, he sometimes hovered on the edge of one of the campgrounds just to listen to the voices and pretend they were talking to him."
"The storm and what to do about it—it wasn’t often anymore that he was so torn by indecision."
"The bedroll on his backpack made it clear he was planning on staying the night—which ought to mean he thought he knew what he was doing in the woods."
"It was like watching June Cleaver roughing it. Sad. Just sad."
"But the irritation wasn’t strong enough to make a difference to Walter’s conscience."
"At last the monster left, dragging a front leg and bleeding from a dozen wounds—though there was no question as to who was worse wounded."
"But her body had been taught to fear the males of her species."
"She was more afraid of them than the Marrok after all."
"It was her fear that was pushing the wolf, she knew."
"She pulled open the door, but Bran didn’t go in immediately so she stopped in the entryway just inside the door, holding it open."
"A suspenseful read that will have you on the edge of your seat as you burn through the pages."
"Inventive and fast paced... entertaining from start to end."
"A really good story... exciting, interesting, and not always predictable... a fun read for a lazy afternoon."
"The wind in the trees... the quiet is so deep you can feel it in your bones."
"Power flared over her skin and jerked her eyes back to him."
"She’d forgotten the bandages, and they weren’t shaped right to change with him."
"The speed of his change slowed more and more as it continued, until she worried that he was going to be stuck halfway between."
"Tis the gift to be gentle, 'tis the gift to be fair, 'Tis the gift to wake and breathe the morning air, To walk every day in the path that we choose, Is the gift that we pray we will never never lose."
"No one would dare try me. My father would kill them if I didn’t manage it first. I’m hardly helpless."
"Do not mourn my passing, I will not. My life this past year has shown me that interfering with God’s plans is seldom a good idea."
"Someone so soft and tender would do better with another man. Someone who likes being touched."
"It wasn’t you," she told him. "I’m all right."
"And just where would I have gone? And what would it have mattered to you if you’d managed to bleed to death?"
"I’ll try not to bleed more often than necessary," he promised, releasing her to her tasks.
"If you decide to take my da up on his offer to leave, remember he seldom does things for simple motives."
"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."
"Bravery isn't the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid."
"To find peace, sometimes you must walk through the darkness."
"The strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell."
"It is in the moments of decision that our destiny is shaped."
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me lay an invincible summer."
"I am not worried that you’ll slow me down," he told her. "Da’s right. With this leg, I’m not going to be breaking any speed records. This isn’t going to be fun, not in those mountains in winter."
"I’ll do as you tell me," she told the floor, feeling stupid for insisting on going and heartsick because he didn’t want her with him. "I’ll try not to get in the way."
"I think," he said, "that even a werewolf deserves a chance, don’t you?"
"It’s all right, Anna. I am patient. And I won’t hurt you if I can help it."
"You were born an Omega, just as my father was dominant and dangerous from his first step, human or not. Being a werewolf just brings it out, and age puts a polish on it."
"Not at all, my dear. But they aren’t set up to deal with this. If I thought I was risking Charles’s life, then I’d find someone else."
"He hadn’t intended to," agreed Charles. He leaned over the map again. "Just from the attacks, it looks as though Baree is the center of his territory—but . . ."
"It is your right to know that although we are compatible, you can still refuse me."
"I don’t want you to keep quiet." He ran a light finger down her jaw. "Tag will be here in a minute. Let me fix some food before he does."
"She, human and wolf both, craved him like a junkie just as she craved all the things he seemed to promise: safety, love, hope—a place to belong."
"Damn Leo that he’d left her crippled by ignorance."
"This was not a man who wanted to give up his mate. This was a man trying to do the honorable thing—and give her a choice, no matter how much it cost him."
"Maybe she was in rut, too. She certainly had never felt like this before."
"Feeling the heavy cloth part under her hands was satisfying. More satisfying was the warm silk of his skin under her fingers."
"The fear and her usual distaste of sex—even the wolf wasn’t bestial enough to do more than endure what those others had done—was so far gone it wasn’t even a memory."
"The sharp alarm she felt at the suddenness of his move woke the wolf."
"With the wolf to protect her, she could give herself over to the way his body heat made her muscles and bones relax into the rightness of his presence."
"An Omega has all the protective instincts of an Alpha and none of the violent tendencies."
"A submissive doesn’t feel the need to fight—not the way a dominant does. They are a treasure in a pack. A source of purpose and of balance."
""A killer is just a murderer," she told him. "You follow rules, carry out justice and—try not to hate yourself for being good at your job.""
"Trust me. You’ll be comfortable tonight. It’s getting up in the morning that takes some fortitude."
"I don’t want our scent anywhere near there. I want us to look like prey, not any kind of official investigators."
"If he’s really a rogue defending his territory, no. If he’s here to cause trouble for my father, he won’t attack people who look like they might carry word of his work out to the world."
"The first rule of playing in the woods was to be flexible."
"I can do that. But I’d like to eat sometime in the next day or so. Sterno and a Bic are much faster."
"God makes sure that evil stays hidden and sly."
"I’m not a witch to impose my will on the world. All I can do is ask, and if it suits their whims, the spirits allow it."
"Once you know they’re out there, you have to admit that God is present."
"Sometimes they help me out in this or that if I ask, but more often they have something they need done."
"Most spirits are more friendly or unfriendly rather than good or evil."
"I was never afraid of monsters until I became one."
"Even wounded, a single rogue wolf would be no match for him."
"The peace that Anna brought him had made him remember..."
"His stomach hurt, his throat hurt, and his eyes burned with tears—and with the old rage that curdled his blood."
"Gradually, the pain eased, cushioned by his knowledge that it would soon be gone forever and be replaced by peace and darkness."
"Humans don’t often escape from werewolf attacks."
"She’d defended herself against a monster and won."
"I’ve never seen a werewolf who looked like that. I’ve heard of one, though."
"Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life."
"Watching her, it was like watching magic. Out of the basket the clothes would come, all in a wad, she’d snap ’em once, and, like that, they’d fall straight and hang just so."
"I almost knocked on her door to thank her. She reminded me that there was a world of daily chores, where clothes were cleaned and everything was in order."
"But I should have thanked her anyway. Got me through a bad time and several bad times since."
"Evil must be destroyed, or it takes over everything it touches."
"You stayed in the mountains for all those years?"
"It wasn’t that bad, really, ma’am. Winters can get rough, but there’s an old cabin I stay in now and then if conditions get too bad."
"Welcome to our world. Witches, werewolves, and things that go bump in the night."
"It was just a nightmare?" she said, afraid to believe. Afraid that had been the truth and this was the dream.
"No," he said. "It was the sum of the worst of your fears."
"One of the problems with having a brother who is a doctor is that I know how few of the people who need CPR survive."
"Yeah, well, I bet most of them aren’t werewolves."
"Of all the magic users in this old world, Bran despised and feared witches above everything."
"There are worse monsters to be than a werewolf, aren’t there?"
"Not all witches use things like this, but it’s hard to be a good witch."
"Burning her place of power will cripple her a bit."
"She loved me better than she loved you," the witch said. "I am her little butterfly, and she takes care of me."
"I would have given my life for hers—and you stole it for yours. You don’t know what love is."
"She hadn’t believed him when he told her that Mariposa had fixated on him, until that night, the second time Mariposa had poisoned Sarai."
"Only then had Sarai agreed there was something wrong with the girl that she couldn’t fix."
"Honor demanded that he fight to live as long as he could, to try to stop this threat he’d brought to the Marrok."
"He screamed because he wasn’t braced, because it hurt worse than he’d thought possible, and because his wolf decided that it wasn’t going to let him just lie down and take it."
"For the first time, Mariposa looked frightened, and he ate that fear as if it were fresh, dripping meat."
"If I were, say, five and still enjoyed sticky-creamy sweet things, I might actually like it."
"Cautiously, he felt down the pack ties toward his Alpha and felt... nothing."
"But Samuel could sometimes be persuaded to tell stories to his younger brother. And Bran as berserker had been one of his favorite stories until he’d grown old enough to understand that it wasn’t just a story."
"Charles fought and fought to keep Brother Wolf quiet, but there was an odd undercurrent of savage rage that he’d never felt before."
"The living and the dead do not good bedfellows make."
"If you love him, if you care about the pack."
"And it happened. Unexpected, unheralded, the mating bond settled over him like a well-worn shirt."