The Wolf Quotes

He cut her off with brutal precision. "And one last thing." His eyes
flicked toward the door, through which Jace, Alec, and Isabelle had
disappeared. "Keep in mind that when your mother fled from the Shadow World, it wasn't the monsters she was hiding from. Not the warlocks, the wolf-men, the Fair Folk, not even the demons themselves. It was them. It was the Shadowhunters.
- Cassandra Clare

She'll be back," Ranger said. "But not tonight."
[Stephanie] "How'd you get her to leave?"
Told her I was gonna spend the next twelve hours ruining you for all other men, and so she might as well go home."
I could feel the heat rush to my face.
Ranger gave me the wolf smile. "I lied about it being tonight," he said.
- Janet Evanovich

The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the child, but ever further into sin, ever deeper into human life.
- Hermann Hesse

You have no idea how deep the level of my depravity is right now." He chuckled. "Are you subtly telling me you're the wolf in sheep's clothing?" "There's no subtle about it. I'm flat out telling you." His eyes roamed over me hungrily, and I knew he was being serious. For whatever reason, I wasn't scared. I felt safe with him.
- Lacey Weatherford

All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.
All of them?
Sure, he says. Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist.
- Margaret Atwood

God, children know something they can't tell; they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed!
- Djuna Barnes

Why is the wolf always the one who's drafted?" Sasha
"The wolf is the one who is most rested." Choo Co La Tah
"What? You want to toss logic into my emotional outburst? Where's the fairness of that?" - Sasha
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

sasha growled low in his throat. "Send the wolf to watch them," he mocked in falsetto. His nostrils flared. "I swear Z, if I live, I'm going to rip that damned goatee off your face and stick your shaving cream in the fridge.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

In my day we let the wolfswans incapable of birthing our young die. (Markus)
Then it's a good thing we're in the twenty-first century and not the Dark Ages, isn't it? (Fang)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

They're trying to scare us." Choo Co La Tah
"Working. 'Cause the wolf here is definitely feeling an 'oh shit' moment. (He glanced over to Abigail.) You wouldn't want to change my diaper, would you?" Sasha
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

The wolf in him demanded he kick (the door) down and claim her.
The man in him just wanted to hold her close and protect her.
He'd never been so torn. So confused.
So damned horny!
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
- Saul Bellow

The wolf lives right here. In this village". He looked at the villages. "Among you. It is one of you.
- Sarah Blakley Cartwright

If you're the wolf, though, I'll chop off your head and piss down the hole
- Sarah Blakley Cartwright

I almost broke my coccyx on 'The Wolf Man,' and I banged my head once. I had to fall really hard.
- Emily Blunt

The wolf was at the door. His shadow spilled into the room, taking it over.
- Libba Bray

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.
- Marshall Mcluhan

Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky;
And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back --
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
- Rudyard Kipling

For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
- Rudyard Kipling

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
- William Ralph Inge

She appreciated the fact that the wolf did not caper, bow down, yelp, or slaver on her, in the slavish and inconsiderate way of dogs. The wolf was no whore for man's approval. He fed himself.
- Patrick Califia Rice

The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's as cunning as he is ferocious; once he's had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do.
- Angela Carter

They will be like shadows, they will be like wraiths, gray members of a congregation of nightmare; hark! his long wavering howl... an aria of fear made audible.
The wolfsong is the sound of the rending you will suffer, in itself a murdering.
- Angela Carter

It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.
- Virgil

The future?' came the voice sadly...'And do we really pass anything on to the future, except mirrors of ourselves? What if the future is as painful as the past?'
'That we can never know,'answered the wolf angrily. 'That's for the future. But what we can know is the importance of what we owe the present. Here and now...What we owe to ourselves, and to those we're bound to. And we can at least hope to make a better future, for everything.
- David Clement Davies

That we can never know," answered the wolf angrily. "That's for the future. But what we can know is the importance of what we owe to the present. Here and now, and nowhere else. For nothing else exists, except in our minds. What we owe to ourselves, and to those we're bound to. And we can at least hope to make a better future, for everything.
- David Clement Davies

Brassa,' she whispered, 'what is the moon? Why does it grow in the sky?'
'Because the moon is the goddess Tor,' answered Brassa softly, smiling down at Larka, 'looking down on us all. As some say the fury of the sun is the hunter Fenris snarling at the Varg, so they say the moon is the wolf goddess, opening her eyes wider and wider and stroking the world with her kindness.
- David Clement Davies

All witches are selfish, the Queen had said. But Tiffany's Third Thoughts said: Then turn selfishness into a weapon! Make all things yours! Make other lives and dreams and hopes yours! Protect them! Save them! Bring them into the sheepfold! Walk the gale for them! Keep away the wolf! My dreams! My brother! My family! My land! My world! How dare you try to take these things, because they are mine!
- Terry Pratchett

In innocence, she'll light the fire
And set ablaze the fun'ral pyre
And one shall rise and one shall fall,
By hand of she who'll lead them all.
Marked twice by beast in time of rage,
And born again as the Wolfsmage.
A house of magic be undone
By she who can remake the sun.
- Cyrese Covelli

Love wasn't forged by circumstance or changed by sorrow. It simply was. Fierce and free as the wolf within me.
- Andrea Cremer

Be careful what you show to the world for the wolf is always watching.
- Jennifer Donnelly

There were times when I lifted my face to the sky, stretched my arms wide to the winter night, and laughed out loud, so happy was I.
The memory of it makes me laugh now, but not from happiness.
Be careful what you show the world.
You never know when the wolf is watching.
- Jennifer Donnelly

be careful what you show the world. you never know when the wolf is watching
- Jennifer Donnelly

To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
- Epicurus

Remember, this thing is small. It's not like the wolfships. It'll ride over the waves, not crash through them. So we're safe as houses.
He wasn't sure about the last two statements, but they seemed logical to him.
- John Flanagan

But allow Riley to boss him around? Multiply "hell, no" by "dream on" and divide by "suck it," and the answer was "the wolf could bite the big one.
- Gena Showalter

And the mystery knight should defeat all challengers and name the wolf maid the queen of love and beauty.
- George R R Martin

Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
- Leo Tolstoy

The wolf said, "You know, my dear, it isn't safe for a little girl to walk through these woods alone."
Red Riding Hood said, "I find your sexist remark offensive in the extreme, but I will ignore it because of your traditional status as an outcast from society, the stress of which has caused you to develop your own, entirely valid, worldview. Now, if you'll excuse me, I must be on my way.
- James Finn Garner

And now it's late, close to the wolfing hour of soul-lack. But she knows, lying curled here, behind him, in the darkness of this small room, with the somehow liquid background sounds of Paris, that hers has returned, at least for the meantime, reeled entirely in on its silver thread and warmly socketed.
- William Gibson

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
- Abraham Lincoln

This is the room of the wolfmother wallpaper.
- Tom Robbins

As the joke goes, you don't have to be faster than the wolf chasing you, just faster than everyone else running away.
- Kim Harrison

If a wolf attacks his sheep, the shepard kills the wolf, but he eats the sheep when he's hungry.
- Charlie Higson

Conchar is an ancient Gaelic term for those who admire the king of all hunters: the wolf.
To some, the wolf is a magnificent beast, the pinnacle of predatory evolution. To others, the wolf is a thing of nightmare.
- Matt Hilton

I think I made a better boy than I do a man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf.
Why not wait until you've been at it a bit longer and then decide? he suggested.
- Robin Hobb

He then put both hands on the door on either side of my head and leaned in close, pinning me against it. I trembled like a downy rabbit caught in the clutches of a wolf. The wolf came closer. He bent his head and began nuzzling my cheek. The problem was...I wanted the wolf to devour me.
- Colleen Houck

The wolf is living for the earth.
- Ted Hughes

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
- Dean Inge

Frost had built on the dead grass, and it skirled beneath his feet. If not for this sound he'd have thought himself struck deaf, owing to the magnitude of the surrounding silence. All the night's noises had stopped. The whole valley seemed to reflect his shock. He heard only his footsteps and the wolf-girl's panting complaint.
- Denis Johnson

He's going macho again," Dev says, totally nonchalantly, while he unlocks the door.
He's always going macho," Is adds. "It must be the wolf thing."
I am not going macho. I am always macho," Nick says.
- Carrie Jones

Out of the night Hopper came, and Perrin was one with the wolf. Hopper, the cub who had watched the eagles soar, and wanted so badly to fly through the sky as the eagles did. The cub who hopped and jumped and leaped until he could leap higher than any other wolf, who never lost the cub's yearning to soar through the sky. Something crashed into his head, and as he fell, he did not know if it was Hopper or himself who died.
- Robert Jordan

A young wolfhound must meet his first wolf someday, but if the wolf sees him as a puppy, if he acts the puppy, the wolf will surely kill him. The wolfhound must be a wolfhound in the wolf's eyes even more than in his own, if he is to survive.
- Robert Jordan

the wolf may fight the bear but the rabbit always looses
- Robert Jordan

Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
- B B King

After his dinner, the wolfhound liked to prowl the grounds, sniffing the grass to learn what creatures of field and forest had recently visited. The yard was Merlin's newspaper.
- Dean Koontz

All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.
- Christian Lous Lange

Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.
- Aldo Leopold

We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters' paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.
- Aldo Leopold

The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
- Jack London

The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you
- Barry Lopez

It does not demean men to want to be what they imagine the wolf to be, but it does demean them to kill the animal for it.
- Barry Lopez

He said that men believe the blood of the slain to be of no consequence but that the wolf knows better. He said that the wolf is a being of great order and that it knows what men do not: that there is no order in this world save that which death has put there.
- Cormac Mccarthy

When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.
- Cormac Mccarthy

You don't like it that I am the one you need to keep the wolf from the door; that comes as no surprise. But I am the one you have. At some point we'll both have to risk telling the truth.
- Juliet Marillier

To run with the wolf was to run in the shadows, the dark ray of life, survival and instinct. A fierceness that was both proud and lonely, a tearing, a howling, a hunger and thirst. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst. A strength that would die fighting, kicking, screaming, that wouldn't stop until the last breath had been wrung from its body. The will to take one's place in the world. To say 'I am here.' To say 'I am.
- O R Melling

Wolf's wool is the best wool, but it cannot be sheared, because the wolf will not comply. With knowledge as with wolves' surliness, the student studies voluntarily, refusing to be less than individual. He "gives his opinion and then rests upon it"; he renders service when there is no reward, and is too reclusive for some things to seem to touch him; not because he has no feeling but because he has so much.
- Marianne Moore

And this is what happened, ands this is why the caribou and the wolf are one; for the caribou feeds the wolf, but it is the wolf that keeps the caribou strong.
- Farley Mowat

We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.
- Farley Mowat

He wouldn't have seen the wolf in redneck clothing.
- Lauren Myracle

either you get eaten by a wolf today or else the shepherd saves you from the wolf so he can sell you to the butcher tomorrow
- Ogden Nash

Whilst the wolflets bayed,
A grave was made,
And then with the strokes of a silver spade,
It was filled to make a mound.
And for two cold days and three long nights,
The father tended that holy plot;
And stayed by where his wife was laid, In the grave within the ground.
- Roman Payne

When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten.
- Robert M Pirsig

We make our journey in the company of others; the deer, the rabbit, the bison, and the quail walk before us, and the lion, the eagle, the wolf, the vulture, and the hyena walk behind us. All our paths lie together in the hand of god and none is wider than any other or favored above any other. The worm that creeps beneath your foot is making its journey across the hand of god as surely as you are.
- Daniel Quinn

Cole," I breathed, "what have you done to yourself?"
The wolf's head jerked back toward its shoulders, again and again.
Cole sang from the speakers, his voice slow and uncertain against a sparse backing of just piano, a different Cole than I'd ever heard:
If I am Hannibal
where are my Alps?
- Maggie Stiefvater

I was losing sight of the wolf ahead of me; the one inside me seemed
closer all of a sudden.
- Maggie Stiefvater

In their eyes, Eve saw the wolf gleam. The story was the prey, ratings the trophy.
- J D Robb

The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream.
- Elihu Root

In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us. If wolves had a religion if there was a religion of the wolf that it is what it would tell us.
- Mark Rowlands

If only, if only, the woodpecker sighs,
The bark on the tree was just a little bit softer.
While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely,
He cries to the moo-oo-oon, If only, if only.
- Louis Sachar

If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs,
"The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies."
While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely,
Crying to the moo-oo-oon,
"If only, If only.
- Louis Sachar

...one of the wolf-like beasts wraps it's arms around me and howls into my ear, obscuring all other sounds. I lash at the creature, trying to wriggle free, gathering my energy to fight back. before I can, the beasts laughs and says, surely you recognise me.
- Darren Shan

The assimilation of taboo images to the everyday language of doing business produces a strange effect. It domesticates the taboo while at the same time making the everyday transactional world more porous, more open to the forbidden. The wolf of unbridled appetite slips into everyday convention in the sheep's clothing of commercial language.
- Lee Siegel

After a little bit, [the wolf] heard a human voice call out from inside the house, "Little Red Riding Hood, is that you? Have you come to visit your Granny?" But since the wolf didn't speak human, he guessed what the person had said was: "Did I hear something? Is there someone out there who needs to come in, could you scratch louder?" So that's what the wolf did: he scratched louder.
- Vivian Vande Velde

The wolf sniffed beneath the door to be sure this was a human cottage. The scent was undeniable. No pigs, except in bacon form. The wolf thought bacon form was a very sensible way for pigs to behave.
- Vivian Vande Velde

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.
- Tennessee Williams

So one day he found her crying
Coiled up on the dirty ground
Her prince finally came to save her
& the rest you can figure out
But it was a trick
& the clock struck twelve
Well make sure to build your home brick by boring brick
or the wolf's gonna blow it down
Keep your feet on the ground
When your head's in the clouds
- Hayley Williams