“People say we can't do anything about the way the world is; they say it's set in stone. I say it looks like stone, but it's mostly paint and cardboard.”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from The Wolf Wilder
“It's inhuman to take your books away before you know the end.”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from The Wolf Wilder
“Wolves, and stars, and snow: Those things made sense.”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from The Wolf Wilder
“Wolves are the witches of the animal world.”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from The Wolf Wilder
“Humans, on the whole, Feo could take or leave; there was only one person she loved properly, with the sort of fierce pride that gets people into trouble, or prison, or history books.”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from The Wolf Wilder
“Cowardice is for cowards. Fear is for people with brains and eyes and functioning nerve endings.”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from The Wolf Wilder
“You will never be tougher than you are now. Children are the toughest creatures on the planet. They endure.”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from The Wolf Wilder
“Feo shook her head; she couldn't speak. The moments in which the world turns suddenly kind can feel like a punctured lung. She stood in the marble hall and cried until tears flooded down her nose and chin and dropped on to the heads of the two bloodstained wolves at her feet.”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from The Wolf Wilder
“The set of her chin suggested she might have slain a dragon before breakfast. The look in her eyes suggested she might, in fact, have eaten it. The”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from The Wolf Wilder
“There were, in Feo's experience, five kinds of cold. There was wind cold, which Feo barely felt. It was fussy and loud and turned your cheeks as red as if you'd been slapped, but couldn't kill you even if it tried. There was snow cold, which plucked at your arms and chapped your lips, but brought real rewards. It was Feo's favorite weather: The snow was soft and good for making snow wolves. There was ice cold, which might take the skin off your palm if you let it, but probably wouldn't if you were careful. Ice cold smelled sharp and knowing. It often came with blue skies and was good for skating. Feo had respect for ice cold. Then there was hard cold, which was when the ice cold got deeper and deeper until at the end of a month you couldn't remember if the summer had ever really existed. Hard cold could be cruel. Birds died in midflight. It was the kind of cold that you booted and kicked your way through.
And then there was blind cold. Blind cold smelled of metal and granite. It took all the sense out of your brain and blew the snow into your eyes until they were glued shut and you had to rub spit into them before they would blink. Blind cold was forty degrees below zero. This was the kind of cold that you didn't sit down to think in, unless you wanted to be found dead in the same place in May or June.
Feo had felt blind cold only once.”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from The Wolf Wilder
“Feo wished she could explain - that the beauty of the world is itself a kind of company, and they lived in one of the most beautiful spots in the world. 'You can make the snow a kind of friend, if you know how.”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from The Wolf Wilder
“No harm in listening. Alexei's a child, not a wizard. We don't lose control of our brains by listening.”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from The Wolf Wilder
“To the three men in gray coats and golden buttons just cresting the hill, the pantomime was a strange one. The speck of green merged with the gray, and the black with the flash of red, as they shot off toward north.”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from The Wolf Wilder
“It's dancing! It's magical, actually. A kind of slowish magic. Like writing with your feet.”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from The Wolf Wilder
“Her face was built on the blueprint used for snow leopards and saints.”
― Katherine Rundell, quote from The Wolf Wilder
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“Child labour was the norm. It is not a problem, or even a category, that most Romans would have understood. The invention of ‘childhood’ and the regulation of what work ‘children’ could do only came fifteen hundred years later and is still a peculiarly Western preoccupation.”
― quote from SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
“I nodded. It was pretty simple. Eight years now and we knew the routine. We do our job. Only here, our job had been castrated down to nothing but a security detail while they did the work that would get the glory. Hopefully they’d get it soon and ship us back to the U.S.”
― L.T. Ryan, quote from Noble Beginnings
“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was. Likewise,”
― Ransom Riggs, quote from Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children Boxed Set
“Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.”
― Candace Bushnell, quote from Sex and the City
“My future,” Joe said, “is Ox.” Ah god, that made me ache. “Is that so?” Mom asked. “How do you figure?” “He’s really nice,” Joe said seriously. “And smells good. And he makes me happy. And I want to do nothing more than put my mouth on him.” “Ah”
― T.J. Klune, quote from Wolfsong
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