But who knows what she spoke to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all her life seemed shrinking, and the walls of her bower closing in about her, a hutch to trammel some wild thing in?
(Aragorn about Eowyn, in the Houses of Healing)
- J R R Tolkien
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
- David Herbert Lawrence
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
- Wendell Berry
Our eyelashes brushed like they would weave together by themselves, turning us into one wild thing. I say, I think I missed you before I met you even.
- Francesca Lia Block
Out here the wild things are healthy, the old trees whose roots find sustenance far below the ill-used layer of topsoil, the occasional rosebush gone to green thicket and thorns, the unstoppable kudzu. It is as if they have decided to take back the land for their own.
- Poppy Z Brite
Always gotta keep busy or the voices start telling me to do wild things.
- Steve Brown
Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.
- Truman Capote
If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.
- Truman Capote
You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.
- Truman Capote
You can't give your heart to a wild thing.
- Truman Capote
But you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until
they're strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That's how you'll end up, Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love
a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.
- Truman Capote
Never love a wild thing... you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That's how you'll end up.... If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.
- Truman Capote
All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.
- Willa Cather
Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don't really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space.
- Bootsy Collins
We are not idealized wild things.
We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. As we were. As we are no longer. As we will one day not be at all.
- Joan Didion
spring is super in the supermarkets
and the strawberries prance and glow
never mind that they're all kinda tart and tasteless
as strawberries go
meanwhile wild things are not for sale
anymore than they are for show
so i'll be outside, in love with the kind of beauty
it takes more than eyes to know
- Ani Difranco
What can I give you? I get a handsome guy who does look good in the morning, and I get a great ring. What do you get?"
"The only thing I've ever wanted." He held her tight and smiled. "I get you,wild thing.
- Rachel Gibson
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
- D H Lawrence
Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important that television.
- Aldo Leopold
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.
- Aldo Leopold
I want to drop to all fours and bay like a wild thing drunk on being hungry and strong, a beast that could fuck for days without cease if I could only find someone that could take it as hard and long a I can give it.
- Karen Marie Moning
When he'd pushed inside me and I'd feel him begin to penetrate, it had turned me into a wild thing-hot, wet, and desperate for more of him. With every kiss, every caress, every thrust, I'd just needed more. He'd touched me, I went nuts. The world dwindled down to one thing: him.
- Karen Marie Moning
That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door.
- Edith Pattou
We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things.
- Minnie Pearl
I don't know what the big issue is about a kiss with Neve Campbell in Wild Things. It's a role, and I think a bigger issue is made out of it. It was a part I took and it's what the character did, so I did it.
- Denise Richards
it was love, of course, though I didn't know it then and Finn was both its subject and object. He accepted love instinctively, without responsibility or conditions, like a wild thing glimpsed through trees.
- Meg Rosoff
Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna.
- Patrick Rothfuss
And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.
- Maurice Sendak
But the wild things cried, Oh please don't go- We'll eat you up- we love you so!
- Maurice Sendak
...from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives, they continually cope with frustrations as best they can. And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.
- Maurice Sendak
And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things.
- Maurice Sendak
I'm sick of 'Wild Things.'
- Maurice Sendak
And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.
- Maurice Sendak
Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.
- Maurice Sendak
Don't tell me you don't wonder, don't th" "I fucking don't!" He grabbed her upper arms, held her in place, the raw fury in his voice a wild thing. "I made my choice, and I chose you. Don't you do this. Don't you destroy us.
- Nalini Singh
You know, in Fairyland-Above they said that the underworld was full of devils and dragons. But it isn't so at all! Folk are just folk, wherever you go, and it's only a nasty sort of person who thinks a body's a devil just because they come from another country and have different notions. It's wild and quick and bold down here, but I like wild things and quick things and bold things, too.
- Catherynne M Valente
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremostnot an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions. All of which is to say: stories, too, are wild things.
- David Wroblewski
(Aragorn about Eowyn, in the Houses of Healing)
- J R R Tolkien
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
- David Herbert Lawrence
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
- Wendell Berry
Our eyelashes brushed like they would weave together by themselves, turning us into one wild thing. I say, I think I missed you before I met you even.
- Francesca Lia Block
Out here the wild things are healthy, the old trees whose roots find sustenance far below the ill-used layer of topsoil, the occasional rosebush gone to green thicket and thorns, the unstoppable kudzu. It is as if they have decided to take back the land for their own.
- Poppy Z Brite
Always gotta keep busy or the voices start telling me to do wild things.
- Steve Brown
Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.
- Truman Capote
If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.
- Truman Capote
You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.
- Truman Capote
You can't give your heart to a wild thing.
- Truman Capote
But you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until
they're strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That's how you'll end up, Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love
a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.
- Truman Capote
Never love a wild thing... you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That's how you'll end up.... If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.
- Truman Capote
All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.
- Willa Cather
Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don't really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space.
- Bootsy Collins
We are not idealized wild things.
We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. As we were. As we are no longer. As we will one day not be at all.
- Joan Didion
spring is super in the supermarkets
and the strawberries prance and glow
never mind that they're all kinda tart and tasteless
as strawberries go
meanwhile wild things are not for sale
anymore than they are for show
so i'll be outside, in love with the kind of beauty
it takes more than eyes to know
- Ani Difranco
What can I give you? I get a handsome guy who does look good in the morning, and I get a great ring. What do you get?"
"The only thing I've ever wanted." He held her tight and smiled. "I get you,wild thing.
- Rachel Gibson
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
- D H Lawrence
Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important that television.
- Aldo Leopold
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.
- Aldo Leopold
I want to drop to all fours and bay like a wild thing drunk on being hungry and strong, a beast that could fuck for days without cease if I could only find someone that could take it as hard and long a I can give it.
- Karen Marie Moning
When he'd pushed inside me and I'd feel him begin to penetrate, it had turned me into a wild thing-hot, wet, and desperate for more of him. With every kiss, every caress, every thrust, I'd just needed more. He'd touched me, I went nuts. The world dwindled down to one thing: him.
- Karen Marie Moning
That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door.
- Edith Pattou
We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things.
- Minnie Pearl
I don't know what the big issue is about a kiss with Neve Campbell in Wild Things. It's a role, and I think a bigger issue is made out of it. It was a part I took and it's what the character did, so I did it.
- Denise Richards
it was love, of course, though I didn't know it then and Finn was both its subject and object. He accepted love instinctively, without responsibility or conditions, like a wild thing glimpsed through trees.
- Meg Rosoff
Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna.
- Patrick Rothfuss
And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.
- Maurice Sendak
But the wild things cried, Oh please don't go- We'll eat you up- we love you so!
- Maurice Sendak
...from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives, they continually cope with frustrations as best they can. And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.
- Maurice Sendak
And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things.
- Maurice Sendak
I'm sick of 'Wild Things.'
- Maurice Sendak
And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.
- Maurice Sendak
Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.
- Maurice Sendak
Don't tell me you don't wonder, don't th" "I fucking don't!" He grabbed her upper arms, held her in place, the raw fury in his voice a wild thing. "I made my choice, and I chose you. Don't you do this. Don't you destroy us.
- Nalini Singh
You know, in Fairyland-Above they said that the underworld was full of devils and dragons. But it isn't so at all! Folk are just folk, wherever you go, and it's only a nasty sort of person who thinks a body's a devil just because they come from another country and have different notions. It's wild and quick and bold down here, but I like wild things and quick things and bold things, too.
- Catherynne M Valente
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremostnot an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions. All of which is to say: stories, too, are wild things.
- David Wroblewski