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

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

“Our parents define so many things, she thinks. Love. Hate. Fear. Provider. Abuser. Abandoner. Monster. Mirror. They metamorphose. They mutate. They change. They are fairy tales with inscrutable illustrations.”
― 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

“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

“Love is a shape-shifting monster”
― 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

“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

“As talented as children can be when it comes to being afraid, there’s really no comparison to how they love, is there?”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“Despite all he’s been through, he’s still at the age where love and trust are inseparable, as unquestionable as gravity.”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“For a moment there, she’d thought grief was done with her, at least for today. No such luck; the tears were just waiting, right behind her eyes, to begin their assault anew. Nobody hides like tears, she realizes. We could learn a thing or two from them.”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“Because I love it? I don’t know. Is love enough of a reason to keep doing stupid things?”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

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

“And what if she believes this world can be changed? No more absent fathers. No more dead children and murdered mothers. No more dreams that don’t come true.”
― 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?”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“Why didn’t he want me? Why didn’t he stick around? Why didn’t he ever even call? Why was he so okay with cutting me out completely? What is it about me that not even my own father could love? It has to be my fault somehow, doesn’t it?”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“Maybe the true horror of the werewolf is that the change is never permanent.”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“I’m always scared of stuff. 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