The Loop Quotes

“Just as they had followed the buffalo across the plains, wolves now followed it, in a few short years, to the brink of extinction.”
― Nicholas Evans, The Loop

“Where once there had been life, now was death. And out of death, thus, was life sustained. And in that bloody compact, both the living and the dead were joined in a loop as ancient and immutable as the moon that arced above them.”
― Nicholas Evans, The Loop

“L'olezzo di una carneficina, credono alcuni, può aleggiare su un luogo per anni. Dicono che s'infiltri nel suolo e venga lentamente assorbito dall'intrico delle radici finché, col passare del tempo, tutto ciò che vi cresce, dal più piccolo lichene all'albero più alto, ne viene impregnato.”
― Nicholas Evans, The Loop

“Cesaron los estertores y sacudidas del viejo alce. La luna, que ascendía por el firmamento, se reflejó en sus ojos, negros y sin vida. Sólo entonces soltó a su presa el macho dominante. Sentado en sus cuartos traseros, apuntó al cielo con su hocico empapado de sangre y aulló. Todos los miembros de su familia levantaron la cabeza y le imitaron, tanto los protagonistas de la caza como sus espectadores. La muerte había ocupado el lugar de la vida; y así, a través de la muerte, la vida veía garantizada su continuidad. En aquel todo sangriento, vivos y muertos quedaban unidos por un ciclo tan antiguo e inmutable como la luna que describía su órbita por encima de sus cabezas.”
― Nicholas Evans, The Loop

“It was a cool, cloudless night with all but the brightest stars doused by a full moon, around which there hung a ring of umbral haze. Later, Helen heard such a ring was considered by some to be an omen of disaster.”
― Nicholas Evans, The Loop

“She had given all and still been found wanting.”
― Nicholas Evans, The Loop