The Night Has Claws Quotes

“If only I could handle my problems like a video-game style battle against a boss. But there are no power-ups in real life. No FTW moment when I can declare total pwnage. I don’t even know who the bad guys are.”
― Kat Kruger, The Night Has Claws

“He doesn’t move a muscle except for his eyes that follow her path as though somehow he can see her contrails. His whole existence revolves around a girl who left his orbit, and he was the one who spun her off her axis.”
― Kat Kruger, The Night Has Claws

“She goes very still and I can count on one hand all the times we’ve been here before, standing at the precipice of almost and staring down into the abyss of what-if.”
― Kat Kruger, The Night Has Claws

“He makes it sound so Zen. Or Jedi. Like some kind of Wolf Yoda. There is no try. And maybe that’s all there is to it. Don’t over-think the shift. Just embrace the form that I want to be in.”
― Kat Kruger, The Night Has Claws

“The cold reality of what he is ― what I am ― sets in like cement and our former selves have been buried and smothered to death beneath the thick concrete of our separate fates.”
― Kat Kruger, The Night Has Claws

“Think wolf; be wolf.”
― Kat Kruger, The Night Has Claws

“Youth is spent looking ahead,” he starts, “toward the future, toward the life you want to build for yourself and the ones you come to love. Everything is new and you rush through the years, the decades, as though the end will never come. But when you’ve lived long enough, you begin to look back at the things that you did … or didn’t do. Sometimes it fills you with a regret for never having stopped to appreciate everything you had during those halcyon days.”
― Kat Kruger, The Night Has Claws

“Forever isn’t supposed to have an expiration date.”
― Kat Kruger, The Night Has Claws

“So, yes, broken bones may heal but there are other injuries that can leave lasting scars. Ones that no one else sees but yourself.”
― Kat Kruger, The Night Has Claws