Lone Wolf Quotes
"It’s hard to explain, really. It didn’t really matter to me if my bedsheets were washed weekly or only once every few months when someone remembered to do it."
"The real power of a wolf isn’t in its fearsome jaws, which can clench with fifteen hundred pounds of pressure per square inch. The real power of a wolf is having that strength, and knowing when not to use it."
"Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a childhood you miss."
"Sometimes, because it’s so quiet, their canned roars get the gibbons all riled up, and they start hollering, too."
"The Abenaki also believe that there are some people who live between the animal world and the human world, never fully belonging to either one."
"I’ve had my share of women and parties, but you’d be just as likely to find me hiking the Presidential Range, or camping in the White Mountains."
"My dad taught me the name of every tree in the woods, knowledge I didn’t even realize I was accumulating."
"The truth is, even if Cara had not chosen to go live with her dad instead of me, I might have found myself the recipient of that phone call last Thursday from Cara, begging to be rescued."
"If you want to understand a wolf's world, you have to be willing to live in it. You have to speak his language."
"Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital."
"Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone."
"Either you fall apart and sob, or you say, Right. What’s next?"
"Doubt is like dye. Once it spreads into the fabric of excuses you’ve woven, you’ll never get rid of the stain."
"You didn’t go sleep with wild animals for four months unless you were trying to get attention drawn to you or you were mentally ill."
"A life is a life. And I know if Ms. Swift could speak, she’d want to know her baby’s being taken care of."
"What am I thinking? I’m supposed to welcome you back with open arms. I’m supposed to ignore the fact that you tore our family to shreds because you’re selfish and you left instead of trying to talk something out."
"I don’t believe any parent moves gracefully into the acceptance that a child doesn’t need her anymore."
"When the news you don’t want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen."
"The truth is, I didn’t think about anything. I was too busy trying to keep myself alive."
"It’s amazing, really, how quickly the extraordinary can start to feel like the commonplace."
"They don’t just look at you; they look into you."
"So you want to bring a wolf into the hospital."
"A life is not measured by its length, but by its depth."
"You just have to give it a minute. Zazi knows he’s in there."
"The best day I ever spent with my father was nearly a disaster."
"Did you all know that today is Edward’s thirteenth birthday?"
"You’re the first person who hasn’t said how sorry you are that this happened to my father."
"No matter what you do for someone—make one wrong move at the wrong moment, and you become someone unrecognizable."
"I can’t tell my mom that. So instead, I look down at the ground."
"It’s not that I think the hospital will try to turn off my father’s life support again, even if Edward asks."
"You fight all the time for people you don’t even know; this is my father’s life we’re talking about."
"Imagine how I felt? I didn’t have any choice."
"Everything you say can and will be used against you."
"It’s hard for me to describe what it was like, locking myself inside the enclosure that first time."
"What’s harder to forgive is the other stuff you said downstairs. This isn’t a contest between you and your brother. Or you and the twins."
"Anger begins with folly, and ends with regret."
"The laughter of the girls was deafening; it had me covering my ears with my palms."
"If I hadn’t left at that moment, I knew I would have stayed forever."
"I had lost nearly sixty pounds, and my wrists stuck out like twigs from the cuffs of my coveralls."
"Everything smelled like ink and toner and dust."
"The neurosurgeon sighs. 'All these machines, they really just prolong the dying process. We’re sustaining a life, but it’s not much of one.'"
"I wonder how long they’d keep the clothes, if they’d call my father and ask him to come pick up his belongings, if they’d donate the pants to charity."
"I was suddenly more popular just because I was related by blood."
"Biologists had tracked wolf corridors along the St. Lawrence River, so he figured he would try to intercept them, and then infiltrate a pack."
"The alcohol feels like fire; I cough and my eyes water and I think I might die right there."
"You think, when you leave, that everything stops. That the world is frozen and waiting for you. But nothing stands still."
"There’s something else I’ve realized since I’ve been here. You think, when you leave, that everything stops. But nothing stands still."
"I’ve talked to the doctors and I’ve asked a hundred questions. I know my father’s not coming back."
"I’ve been making my own way for six years. I don’t need his money."
"My dad would be the first to tell you he thinks like a wolf. And a wolf would put the pack above everything else."
"You either get it right or you screw it up and you have to live with what you’ve done."
"I want him to know that, no matter what, even though I left, he can still trust me."
"Scars are just a treasure map for pain you’ve buried too deep to remember."
"I couldn’t tell you which girl it was, but I assumed."
"It’s not Heaven, and it’s not Hell. It’s the in-between."
"There’s no point in being able to know everything about wolves if you can’t teach it to the people who need to learn."
"What I’m trying to say is that I blamed you, when it was me all along."
"This is what I like about photographs. They’re proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect."