18 quotes found
“Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.”
“I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.”
“Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.”
“The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.”
“Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.”
“Edward: You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal? he used to say to me. A plan.”
“The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.”
“Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.”
“Cara: I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesn't mean you're fearless. It just m...”
“Turn around, and the people you thought you knew might change. Your little boy might now live half a world away. Your beautiful daughter might be sneaking out at night. Your ex-husband might by dyi...”
“Logically, I understand that it wasn't Edward's fault my family fell apart after he left. But when you're eleven years old, you don't give a flip about logic. You just really miss holding your big ...”
“The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always...”
“You know, he told me once, completely exasperated, you've got one glass of water inside your head, with all the tears for a lifetime. If you waste them over nothing, then you won't be able to cry f...”
“Men. You can't live with them...and you can't legally shoot them. I tossed out my husband eight years ago and got a llama instead. Best decision I ever made.”
“ The first Abenaki word I ever learned was Bitawbagok the word they use for Lake Champlain. It means, literally, the waters between. Since Ive come back from Quebec, I have thought of my address a...”
“The Native Americans know that wolves are mirrors for humans. What they show us are our strengths and weaknesses... When I lived with the wolves, I was proud of the reflection of myself. But when I...”
“When I first met Cara, she was twelve and angry at the world. Her parents had split up, her brother was gone, and her mom was infatuated with some guy who was missing vowels in his unpronounceable ...”
“The hardest part about being back in the human world was relearning emotion. Everything a wolf does has a practical, simple reason. There is no cold shoulder, no saying one thing when you mean some...”