When the Wolf Comes Home Quotes

“Oh yeah I'm always scared of stuff. You get to a certain age and they stop calling it scared and start calling it anxiety.”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“The truth is, nowadays, mass shootings are so common they’re more useful to bury attention than gain it. You could basically call any massacre a mass shooting, and within a day or two, most Americans will have digested it and shit it out without so much as a faint aftertaste. It’s like money laundering but for slaughter.”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“Love is a shape-shifting monster, she thinks, dizzy and horrified and exhausted and devastated. A werewolf with a bottomless stomach.”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“No one will be spared when the wolf comes home.”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“Haven’t you noticed by now? Just because something’s impossible doesn’t mean it’s not real.”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“There’s a sharp pain in her chest. Not quite betrayal. More—horribly—like sad resignation. Another relationship”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“Is that possible? To live in this world and not scare yourself to death? To feel turbulence and not imagine the plane going down? To experience hope as a grown-up with the same clarity a child feels terror? How do you not call forth the things that will devour you and give them teeth? How do you protect? Especially when the danger is you?”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“So many examples she could share. All the ways fear has shaped her life. Fear of rejection. Fear of failure. Fear of not being lovable. Fear of not being enough. The shitty situations she’s accepted because that’s less scary than doing something about it. Call it what you want; it’s all just the skeletal shadow of tree branches on the wall. Fear is fear is fear when it’s slithering in the dark.”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“Conspiracy theories are basically just fairy tales for adults, aren’t they?”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“And, hey, if you are the sort of person who's offended by the existence of content warnings, I'm truly sorry. Maybe next time, I'll give you a little heads-up that they're coming, so you'll be able to prepare yourself.”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“These condos are lovely,” he begins. “How long have you—what are you doing?” She’s pointing her hand at him”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“Call it what you want; it’s all just the skeletal shadow of tree branches on the wall. Fear is fear is fear when it’s slithering in the dark.”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“Wish in one hand, shit in the other, and see which one fills up first.”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“others), the drunk drivers have mostly torn their destructive path through whatever lives they’re endangering, and now all is calm and peaceful until the morning rush begins.”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“Fucking grief. Fucking stupid, unpredictable, illogical, unhelpful grief.”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“As if the universe chose that moment to come alive for them and tell them there was nothing to worry about. As if it knew their names.”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“The wolf lets out a tremendous, world-splitting roar. The stench is appalling: rot and decay and the promise of ruined flesh.”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“Love is a shape-shifting monster”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“He’s been so brave. He can’t wait to show her how brave he’s been. But bravery has also felt like a weight—he’s eager to set it down at her feet. She holds it so much easier than he.”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“Oh yeah. I’m always scared of stuff. You get to be a certain age and they stop calling it scared and start calling it anxiety. But it’s all the same. Sometimes I even get so scared I accidentally make the thing I’m scared of come true too.”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“Kids feel time so differently than adults. For those handful of seconds while she processed that lyric—imagining how she’d never be able to feel truly safe in her room”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“Fear. His ability is fear. Whatever he’s afraid of becomes real.”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“Fucking grief. Fucking stupid”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“Our parents define so many things”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“She used to love so much the pain was unbearable whenever it wasn't given back”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“You get to be a certain age and they stop calling it scared and start calling it anxiety.”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“(it hasn’t happened yet”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“Conspiracy theories are basically just fairy tales for adults”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“The truth is”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“The boy nods again—more resolute this time. Walks over to the front of the car and crouches like a little soldier preparing for an ambush.”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home