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1 " Never allow your mind to wander untamed like a wild animal that exists on the basis of survival of the fittest. Tame your mind with consistent focus on your goals and desires. "
― Stephen Richards , Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
2 " Valkyrie walked to the back door, which hadn't been closed properly, shut it and locked it. There was now a baby in the house, after all. She couldn't take the chance that a wild animal might wander in and make off with Alice, like those dingoes in Australia. She was probably being unfair to both dingoes and Australia, but she couldn't risk it. Locked doors kept the dingoes out, and that's all there was to it, even if she didn't know what a dingo actually was. She took out her phone, searched the Internet, found a picture of a baby dingo and now she really wanted a baby dingo for a pet. "
― Derek Landy , Death Bringer (Skulduggery Pleasant, #6)
3 " I mumble my vows, Shad mutters his, and I wonder what would happen if I lunged for the door like a wild animal seeking its freedom. I could probably outrun his one-legged friend, but Shad has something of the greyhound about him. "
― Janet Mullany , Improper Relations (Lord Shad, #1)
4 " I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea. "
― Bram Stoker , Dracula
5 " Every story is an act of trust between a writer and a reader: each story, in the end, is social. Whatever a writer sets down can help or harm a community of which he or she is a part. When I write I can imagine a child in California wishing to give away what he’s just seen- a wild animal fleeing though creosote cover in the desert, casting a bright-eyed backward glance or three lines of overheard conversation that seem to contain everything we need understand to repair the gaping rift between body and soul. I look back at that boy turning in glee beneath his pigeons and know it can take a lifetime to convey what you mean, to find the opening. You watch, you set it down. Then you try again. "
― Barry Lopez , About This Life
6 " When he passed me in the restaurant," he said at last, " I had a curious impression. It was as though a wild animal – an animal savage, but savage! you understand – had passed me by." " And yet he looked altogether of the most respectable." " Précisément! The body – the cage – is everything of the most respectable – but through the bars, the wild animal looks out." " You are fanciful, mon vieux," said M. Bouc. " It may be so. But I could not rid myself of the impression that evil had passed me by very close." (1.2.52-56) "
7 " When she saw me, my mother stood up and started to come toward me, but then stopped. I think maybe Cat Poop had told her not to make any sudden movements because they might scare me, like I’m a wild animal or something, because she kept looking at him and then at me. Finally she just said, “Hello, Jeff,” and sat down again next to my father. "
8 " Among wilderness survival tips, punching a wild animal in the face probably isn’t on a checklist. "
― Kat Kruger , The Night Has Teeth (Lycan Code #1)
