Wolf Worm Quotes

“Some thoughts burrow into your mind as thoroughly as a wasp larva burrows into an unsuspecting caterpillar. The trick, which I am still learning, is how to live without being devoured by them.”
― T. Kingfisher, Wolf Worm

“The history of the world is written in dying bodies and those who have to pick up afterwards.”
― T. Kingfisher, Wolf Worm

“Indeed, I'd met a number of wives who were clearly doing the lion's share of the research, no matter whose name appeared on the frontispiece.”
― T. Kingfisher, Wolf Worm

“Intuition, my father used to say, is just an observation that you don't realize you've made.”
― T. Kingfisher, Wolf Worm

“The door led through a small scullery into the kitchen. The walls needed whitewash and the stove was a monstrous iron beast the size of a coffin, but it was warm and smelled like baking bread. My shoulders, which had been inching up around my ears, relaxed a little. Such is the power of bread.”
― T. Kingfisher, Wolf Worm

“The dead are dead. Now the living have to take notes.”
― T. Kingfisher, Wolf Worm

“You’d think being in mortal peril would eliminate any sense of social awkwardness, but apparently it just means that you get to spend the last moments of your life embarrassed.”
― T. Kingfisher, Wolf Worm

“It took some time before I stopped panicking at the sight of bumblebees, but I managed eventually. It is hard to be afraid of creatures who fly headlong at flowers and miss more often than not.”
― T. Kingfisher, Wolf Worm

“Cleanliness is next to godliness, Miss Wilson, or so they say. But foulness provides rather more opportunity for scientific inquiry.” His”
― T. Kingfisher, Wolf Worm

“When I stepped inside, I found Mrs. Kent bustling, which is rather like puttering but conducted at twice the speed and with far greater efficiency.”
― T. Kingfisher, Wolf Worm

“It is terrible to be helpless, but it can be equally terrible to be the one who is supposed to be able to help.”
― T. Kingfisher, Wolf Worm

“(It’s always awkward to give people art that you’ve made. It feels egotistical, as if you think so highly of yourself and your skill that you expect other people to be impressed as well. Even now, when I make my living with that skill, I can never quite shake the feeling that people are humoring me like a child when I give them something I’ve drawn.)”
― T. Kingfisher, Wolf Worm

“The Klan had similarly been stamped out a decade prior, though God knows hatred is more resilient than wildlife.”
― T. Kingfisher, Wolf Worm

“hatred is more resilient than wildlife.”
― T. Kingfisher, Wolf Worm

“I could hear Ma Kersey as I climbed the stairs. It ain’t easy to swallow some things down. Makes you feel like maybe you aren’t who you thought you were.”
― T. Kingfisher, Wolf Worm

“What I wanted in that moment was not answers, not explanations, not even freedom. What I wanted was for this not to be happening.”
― T. Kingfisher, Wolf Worm

“intuition is just an observation you don't realize you've made.”
― T. Kingfisher, Wolf Worm