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The Wolf Gift (The Wolf Gift Chronicles, #1) QUOTES

The Wolf Gift (The Wolf Gift Chronicles, #1) QUOTES

1 " Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies. "

― Anne Rice , The Wolf Gift (The Wolf Gift Chronicles, #1)

2 " ...what was the good of being a movie werewolf? You howled at the moon; you couldn't remember what you did, and then somebody shot you. "

― Anne Rice , The Wolf Gift (The Wolf Gift Chronicles, #1)

3 " First time my master’s in English literature ever proved useful. "

― Anne Rice , The Wolf Gift (The Wolf Gift Chronicles, #1)

4 " What if the drive to survive was a form of faith, a form of prayer? "

― Anne Rice , The Wolf Gift (The Wolf Gift Chronicles, #1)

5 " But Marchent, most journalists can’t be trusted. You do know that, don’t you? "

― Anne Rice , The Wolf Gift (The Wolf Gift Chronicles, #1)

6 " You’re a mystery the way a sacrament is a mystery. "

― Anne Rice , The Wolf Gift (The Wolf Gift Chronicles, #1)

7 " Writers had a way of redeeming everything that ever happens to them. "

― Anne Rice , The Wolf Gift (The Wolf Gift Chronicles, #1)

8 " Is there any one of us who doesn’t want to strike back at all the evil in this world? "

― Anne Rice , The Wolf Gift (The Wolf Gift Chronicles, #1)

9 " The horror was this: the others. "

― Anne Rice , The Wolf Gift (The Wolf Gift Chronicles, #1)

10 " Who could trust language? "

― Anne Rice , The Wolf Gift (The Wolf Gift Chronicles, #1)

11 " Who has a right to tell me I have no gift, no talent, no passion ...' he murmured. 'Why do people say those things to you when youre young? Doesn't seem fair, does it?'
'No, darling, it's not fair,'she said. 'But the mystery is why you listen. "

― Anne Rice , The Wolf Gift (The Wolf Gift Chronicles, #1)

12 " In the story of the prince and the frog, there’s always a frog. This story ... it has no frog. "

― Anne Rice , The Wolf Gift (The Wolf Gift Chronicles, #1)

13 " Something had happened to his entire body that was very much like what happens to the erectile tissue of his organ when a man is sexually aroused. It increases marvellously in size, no matter what the man wants to happen. It goes from something flaccid and secret to becoming a kind of weapon. "

― Anne Rice , The Wolf Gift (The Wolf Gift Chronicles, #1)

14 " Everyone today has a story; the world’s an archive. "

― Anne Rice , The Wolf Gift (The Wolf Gift Chronicles, #1)

15 " Time can tick when there is no clock. "

― Anne Rice , The Wolf Gift (The Wolf Gift Chronicles, #1)

16 " I will write things, he was thinking. I will write something meaningful and wonderful someday. I can do that. And I'll dedicate it to you because you're the first person who ever made me think I could. "

― Anne Rice , The Wolf Gift (The Wolf Gift Chronicles, #1)

17 " Dear God, help me. Do not forget me on this tiny cinder lost in a galaxy that is lost–a heart no bigger than a speck of dust beating, beating against death, against meaninglessness, against guilt, against sorrow. "

― Anne Rice , The Wolf Gift (The Wolf Gift Chronicles, #1)

18 " I'm hoping what all sentient beings hope ... that somehow I'm part of something larger than myself, in which I play a role, an actual role that is somehow intended and meaningful. "

― Anne Rice , The Wolf Gift (The Wolf Gift Chronicles, #1)

19 " Say what you will to the force that governs the universe. Perhaps we'll call it into being, and it will yet love us as we love it. "

― Anne Rice , The Wolf Gift (The Wolf Gift Chronicles, #1)

20 " Oh, if the moon only had a secret, if the moon only held a truth. But the moon was just the moon. "

― Anne Rice , The Wolf Gift (The Wolf Gift Chronicles, #1)