“he knows that it's impossible to tell a wolf
from a man if
he keeps his chin up
and his teeth clean.”
― Toby Barlow, quote from Sharp Teeth
“The bullet we're running from is almost never the one that hits us.”
― Toby Barlow, quote from Sharp Teeth
“And were you cornered by her,
eye to eye,
you would see that
there are still some watchful creatures
whose essence lies unbound by words.
There is still a wilderness.”
― Toby Barlow, quote from Sharp Teeth
“Call him Judas if you want
but he did it for reasons
much older than silver.”
― Toby Barlow, quote from Sharp Teeth
“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.”
― Toby Barlow, quote from Sharp Teeth
“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.”
― Toby Barlow, quote from Sharp Teeth
“That's what love does/ It chases the dragons away/ before their claws can sink in.”
― Toby Barlow, quote from Sharp Teeth
“As she stared at the ceiling that first night
her body softly falling back into itself,
she thought of how we dream of journeying
on spaceships to other universes, other worlds,
but really, for the forever,
we're stuck here on the dirt and
the only time we will travel anywhere truly unknowable
is when we slip into the skin of another,
venturing into their mysteries,
always hoping for
a safe landing.”
― Toby Barlow, quote from Sharp Teeth
“Everyone is always looking in the wrong direction,
we worry about our lovers while losing our jobs
we stress out about cancer while our children run away
we ponder the stars while burning the earth.
Lark used to say the buller we're running from
is almost never the one that hits us.”
― Toby Barlow, quote from Sharp Teeth
“There are two things that make
the conscious world move,
decision and desire.”
― Toby Barlow, quote from Sharp Teeth
“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.”
― Toby Barlow, quote from Sharp Teeth
“The theory is simple.
Every boy, every man, is really
a bit of a golden retriever
or a big chocolate Lab.
Watch any man's eyes
at the bounce of a ball.
His head tilts slightly sideways, just a hair,
as a primitive focus
comes to life.”
― Toby Barlow, quote from Sharp Teeth
“Like so much of the trouble in the world
it ends simply with exhaustion.”
― Toby Barlow, quote from Sharp Teeth
“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.”
― Toby Barlow, quote from Sharp Teeth
“He said, You know, whoever hurt you
dies every time they look in the mirror.
That is how they pay."
She crossed her arms.
"And one day, Maria, you will die too,
but there's no reason for you to die
every day.”
― Toby Barlow, quote from Sharp Teeth
“Monkeys
What! His partner said.
Monkeys are funny, said Peabody.'So why didn't we we pick monkeys.
His partner sighed and shook his head with sad dismay.
Monkeys? Jesus.
Monkeys' idea of fun is throwing their shit at you. Monkeys always take the joke a step too far.”
― Toby Barlow, quote from Sharp Teeth
“Minimum wages tends to elicit minimum attention.”
― Toby Barlow, quote from Sharp Teeth
“But in all these tales the dog is the innocent shooting star we all wish upon until it burns up, aging fast and disappearing behind our jagged horizons. 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.”
― Toby Barlow, quote from Sharp Teeth
“This coyote is a wily dog born
from ancient trickster bones,
Loki, Hermes, the northwestern Raven of lore”
― Toby Barlow, quote from Sharp Teeth
“Their love is eternal because time seems to have fled, embarrassed to be sharing such a small apartment with so much dumb affection.”
― Toby Barlow, quote from Sharp Teeth
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“A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.”
― Anthony Burgess, quote from Earthly Powers
“The end of one thing is just the beginning of another.”
― Simone Elkeles, quote from How to Ruin a Summer Vacation
“We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.”
― H. Rider Haggard, quote from She
“[From Flowering Judas]
She is, her comrades tell her, full of romantic error, for what she defines as cynicism in them is merely 'a developed sense of reality'.”
― Katherine Anne Porter, quote from The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
“These are the stories that the Dogs tell when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north. Then each family circle gathers at the hearthstone and the pups sit silently and listen and when the story's done they ask many questions:
"What is Man?" they'll ask.
Or perhaps: "What is a city?"
Or: "What is a war?”
― Clifford D. Simak, quote from City
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