Wolves Quotes

“If you truly think wolves are the blood spillers, then you're blind...We do that. We are the people killers, the children killers. We're the monsters.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves

“To protect the sheep you gotta catch the wolf, and it takes a wolf to catch a wolf.”
― David Ayer, Training Day

“Make up your mind. Is Death a friend? Then go joyfully to hunt with it, as I did. If it's an enemy, then fight it. But don't sag here like a wounded cow waiting for predators to finish it off. You are not prey, nor I! If we must die, let us die as wolves!”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Fate

“Sigh to the stars, as wolves howl to the moon...”
― Lord Byron

“Stalked by wolves, eaten by witches, and trapped in a tower for over a decade. No one's life is a fairytale, or at least I would hope not!”
― Carolyn Watson Dubisch, The Curse

“How a man treats a stranger says more about his character than how he treats his family.”
― Dannika Dark, The Vow

“Sometimes a wolf has to stand alone to find out what he’s made of.”
― Dannika Dark, The Vow

“It hardly matters if you’ve known someone a lifetime or a minute. Our wolves always know who they belong to.”
― Dannika Dark, The Vow

“The greatest thing you can do in this life is give. Give life, give your love, your compassion, and even forgiveness. When you begin taking more than you give, your life will fall out of balance. Remember that.”
― Dannika Dark, The Vow

“In fairy tales, the wolf is always ferocious. Astute and agile, the wolf always figures out how to get its way. … The Wolf, in other words, always wins.”
― Cristina Rivera Garza, The Taiga Syndrome

“For friendship. For honor. Forever”
― Inbali Iserles, The Mage

“Can’t track wolves, not really.” “Then how do you find them?” “You don’t. You leave them be.” I slumped, disappointed. He watched me sideways. “All right then, I’ll tell you a secret. But you must use it for good. Do you promise?” “Yes.” “There is no tracking a wolf,” Dad said. “They are cleverer than we are. So instead you track its prey.” We grinned at each other. I couldn’t stop thinking about that solitary paw print. “How’d it move with no tracks like that?” “The infinite mystery of wolves,” Dad replied, and I decided then that I would discover the creature’s secrets.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves

“Traits of a Rising Woman

1. Supportive and loyal
2. Doesn’t take things personally
3. Empathetic yet assertive
4. Guided by intuition
5. Roams wild within nature
6. Lover of full moons and sunsets
7. Protective of her wildling cubs
8. Unable to be manipulated or controlled
9. Build’s others up
10. Knows her worth”
― JefaWild

“He reduced the space between us and dipped his chin. “I couldn’t risk someone seeing. The woods have eyes.”
I sputtered with laughter. “And what could they have possibly witnessed that would have blown your cover?”
When he touched his forehead to mine, I froze. “My affection for you,” he said on a breath.”
― Dannika Dark, The Vow

“A magical, yet stirring story about a pack of wolves that needs to find their destiny in a landscape where man poses a threat.”
― Paola Giometti, The Destiny of the Wolves

“This wasn’t a fairy story. And even if it were, no tale had ever told her she could rely on the generosity of wolves, the eaters of grandmothers and lambs and piglets, the trickers of blue-eyed girls in carmine riding hoods.”
― Elna Holst, Pyotra and the Wolf

“Fear sank its jaws into Zima as she recognized the smell of magic.”
― Karah Sutton, A Wolf for a Spell

“Yer it gave me comfort to know the wolves would keep our fallen in their thoughts. That somewhere, in a land of ice and flames, the memory of my family lived on.”
― Inbali Iserles, The Mage

“The wolf is made he way the world is made. You cannot touch the world. You cannot hold it in your hand for it is made of breath only.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

“How they disappear as fragments of ice,
leaving a wisp of mist on the surface. The slow vastitude

of winter covering a graveyard. A silent field of wolves
watching moonrise. Praise the northern star. Its fullness,

not leading us astray.”
― Sneha Subramanian Kanta, Ghost Tracks

“If I refused to let the streckwolves have the humans, knowing they were more likely to succeed than I, then I was no better than a Greatwolf. And if I had to choose between being like Milsindra or like the little not-wolves, I would rather be a streckwolf.”
― Dorothy Hearst, Spirit of the Wolves

“The pack heard Oscars call, Kojac felt the urgency in his howl. Their territory had been breeched, he led the pack back to Toni’s. Retribution would be swift and the danger would be eliminated. Even though they were a mismatch of lone and injured wolves brought together by Toni, Kojac knew it was theirs to protect.”
― Tania Nichols, Wolves and Monsters

“In the black eye sockets of the dead, and over the thousands of molehills spread throughout the plains, the snow fell noiselessly. Only the bandy-legged wolf, wandering over my footprints among the crosses on the graves, did not leap over the cemetery walls, on this long night.”
― Josef Winkler, When the Time Comes

“The silent presence of the direwolf gave him comfort. The girls do not even have that much, he thought. Their wolves might have kept them safe, but Lady is dead and Nymeria’s lost, they’re all alone.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“To be honest, she had been too tired to argue. Sharing a sleeping bag with a storybook creature one had just shot at could do that to a person.”
― Elna Holst, Pyotra and the Wolf

“Perfection,” he said with a suave smile. “We’re the beauty and the beast of legend. I, of course, am the beauty.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dance With The Sword

“Stories of the lone wolf were often spoken in packs with a level of awe that would make any youngling excited for the day they struck off alone to find their own home. Just like most stories, it seemed, the elders of his pack had left out some very important details.”
― Francesca McMahon, Echoes of the Past

“I only know one place in the United States where 'natural' wolf death is the norm: Yellowstone National Park.”
― Emma Marris, Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

“The more I wrote about wolf reintroduction, the more I began to feel uneasy about it. Bringing wolves back may have changed dynamics in some ecosystems, and it certainly made many people happy, but how happy were the wolves themselves? Because we were asking them to live in between human settlements and on the same lands as free-roaming herds of cattle, we were constantly trying to track them and modify their behavior. Some wolves were captured up to five times. And if they didn't follow our rules, we killed them”
― Emma Marris, Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

“here the recommended management strategy is to keep the wolves looking like wolves. To Boitani, the wolves' aesthetics and the preservation of their ecological niche are the object; the preservation of purely 'wild' DNA and the freedom of individual wolves, less so.”
― Emma Marris, Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World