Quotes from book

Lone Wolf

“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 for real when you need to.”

“When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob, or you say, 'Right. What's next?”

“This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.”

“The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.”

“Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.”

“It just goes to show you: you can put nine insane miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you.”

“I wonder if what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giving a second chance to the people you love who do things wrong.”

“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.”

“I wonder if the conversations you've never had with someone count, if you've been over them a thousand times in your mind.”

“This is just my way of pointing out that we people who leap without looking are not stupid. We know damn well we might be headed for a fall. But we also know that, sometimes, it's the only way out.”

“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.”

“The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.”

“Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.”

“You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal?… A plan.”

“The real power of a wolf isn't in its fearsome jaws, which can clench with fifteen hundred pounds of pressure per square inch. The real power of a wolf is having that strength, and knowing when not to use it.”

“An apology with a defense built in isn't much of an apology”