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1 " he knows that it's impossible to tell a wolffrom a man ifhe keeps his chin upand his teeth clean. "
― Toby Barlow , Sharp Teeth
2 " The secret must stay and- according to scientists- the love will live. The heart is quite comfortable with secrets. After all, its home is a dark wet place tucked in among all the other organs who aren't talking either. "
3 " Men have dragged us by our hair through the ages, and whether they give us crumbs or bright, shiny rocks, they truly give us nothing at all. If you have not opened your legs for them so that they could drawl out as babies or crawl in as men, they they will leave you to starve like a dog on the street. So now we are done playing the way they want us to play. Now we are moving to music they cannot hear, to a rhythm they cannot understand. They call it madness and we call it truth and find me the magistrate you can trust to judge between the two? Bah. So we dance on, we dance on. "
― Toby Barlow , Babayaga
4 " She killed her sons first. Hammering a long fence nail through each of their hearts. Then, taking an ax, she methodically beheaded each one of her brothers-in-law. Going out to the pens, she drove the livestock into the barn, bolting it shut, and while the goat kids and spring lambs panicked and brayed, she put all the buildings to flame. "
5 " Knowing someone isn't coming backdoesn't mean you ever stop waiting "
― Toby Barlow
6 " He was high up now, gazing across to where Montmartre itself gazed out over the city. He was swept along in the wind, admiring the twin steeples of Notre-Dame as he passed, along with the dogged, devilish gargoyles of St. Jacques. "
7 " The bullet we're running from is almost never the one that hits us. "
8 " Call him Judas if you wantbut he did it for reasonsmuch older than silver. "
9 " And were you cornered by her,eye to eye,you would see thatthere are still some watchful creatureswhose essence lies unbound by words.There is still a wilderness. "
10 " Some things don't pass, the injuries don't heal they merely find a place in our guts and in our bones where they fitfully rest, tossing and turning between our knuckles and ribs waiting to wake as the shadows grow long. "
11 " The heart is a bloody thing. "
12 " That's what love does/ It chases the dragons away/ before their claws can sink in. "
13 " Everyone is always looking in the wrong direction,we worry about our lovers while losing our jobswe stress out about cancer while our children run awaywe ponder the stars while burning the earth.Lark used to say the buller we're running fromis almost never the one that hits us. "
14 " As she stared at the ceiling that first nighther body softly falling back into itself,she thought of how we dream of journeyingon spaceships to other universes, other worlds,but really, for the forever,we're stuck here on the dirt andthe only time we will travel anywhere truly unknowableis when we slip into the skin of another,venturing into their mysteries,always hoping fora safe landing. "
15 " There are two things that makethe conscious world move,decision and desire. "
16 " You either trust or you distrust coincidence. It 's either small doses of magic pulling you to your appointed destiny or the devil trying to lead you down to the thorns. "
17 " Like so much of the trouble in the worldit ends simply with exhaustion. "
18 " The theory is simple.Every boy, every man, is reallya bit of a golden retrieveror a big chocolate Lab.Watch any man's eyesat the bounce of a ball.His head tilts slightly sideways, just a hair,as a primitive focuscomes to life. "
19 " You can’t own something unless you can swallow it "
20 " Each dog marks a section of our lives, and in the end, we feed them to the dark, burying them there while we carry on. "
