Once There Were Wolves
Charlotte McConaghy
Top 10 Best Quotes
“There are languages without words and violence is one of them.”
“My father used to say the world turned wrong when we started separating ourselves from the wild, when we stopped being one with the rest of nature, and sat apart.”
“The world he describes, empty of wild creatures and places, overrun instead by people and their agriculture, is a dying world”
“All creatures know love, Dad used to say. All creatures.”
“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.”
“I think it’s civilization makes us violent. We infect each other.”
“You must know monsters well, wolf girl.” “I’ve never met one in the wild. They don’t live there.”
“this is the thing, isn’t it? This is the fear they live with now. The children in us long for monsters to take forms we understand. They want to fear the wolves because they don’t want to fear each other.”
“Men get taught to expect control but a modern society no longer supports that, so some men feel it slipping and it humiliates them. The humiliation makes them angry, and then violent.”
“I want never to leave this place. I want never to see another human again. I want it more than I've ever wanted anything. The aloneness is exquisite; it is calm.”
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Book Keywords:
science, aloneness, wolves, environment, humans, solitude, sadness, killers, nature
