Wild Dogs Quotes

“Memory is a barricade against forgetting; light is a bulwark against darkness; life is a flex against the stillness of the grave. Maybe that's what I'm trying to do here, clear a space in all the debris, through all the anxieties and worries, where I can just exist, easily and simply, entire, for as long as I have left.”
― Helen Humphreys, Wild Dogs

“There are words in my life that I wish I'd never said. I wish I'd never told my wife that I loved her, because then I had to line up all my actions with those words. I had to always act like that was true. And those three words, I love you, should never be used if you don't mean them. My lying has meant I will never get to use them on anyone else. I went against my own truth, my own heart, and there is really no coming back from that.”
― Helen Humphreys, Wild Dogs

“I don't think anymore that my life is about what has happened to me. It's about what I choose to believe. It's not what I can see, but what I think is out there. And in the end, this end, here is what I believe. The heart is a wild and fugitive creature. The heart is a dog who comes home.”
― Helen Humphreys, Wild Dogs

“Your leaving will not be solved by your coming back. But one does not preclude the other. And maybe that is always what there is to fear, in everything that happens-what we choosee to love to will choose to forsake us.”
― Helen Humphreys, Wild Dogs

“I have seen animals shot, and I have seen people who have been blindsided by greief. We always know what has hit us. We don't always know that it will kill us.”
― Helen Humphreys, Wild Dogs

“I don't think any more that my life is about what has happened to me. It's about what I choose to believe. It's not what I can see, but what I think is out there.

And in the end, this end, here is what I believe.
The heart is a wild and fugitive creature.
The heart is a dog who comes home.”
― Helen Humphreys, Wild Dogs

“Love is not a good thing, I've decided. It just makes you afraid you'll lose what you love, and then, because your fear makes a space for that to happen, it does. What's the point?”
― Helen Humphreys, Wild Dogs

“It's funny to think that Anson and I were here, in this same place, together all that time ago, and now here we are again. It makes me feel good, makes me feel that perhaps everything doesn't just disappear, that some things are circling back, taking the long way, but circling back towards me.”
― Helen Humphreys, Wild Dogs

“Now I see how many wolf characteristics you had. You were wary, didn't really trust anyone or anything. You were elusive and secretive. You paced out behind the trees, watching everything and waiting for the moment when it was safe to come in and rest by the fire. But you weren't happy there -- no, I take that back, you were happy there, but you weren't comfortable. It wasn't what you knew. It wasn't what you trusted. You trusted meanness, not kindness. Kindness spooked you -- you were always looking for the trap in it. You trusted in a scrappy existence where you had to fight for your survival.”
― Helen Humphreys, Wild Dogs

“Ma per mantenere vivo il ricordo di te non dispongo del lusso dell'abitudine. Abbiamo avuto istanti, ma nessuna routine. Non mi resta nulla di te se non quello che riesco a ricordare o a immaginare, e temo che presto le due cose non si potranno più distinguere.”
― Helen Humphreys, Wild Dogs

“Non mi resta altro che questo sguardo a ritroso. Ho perso il tuo viso racchiuso nella cornice del finestrino, i dettagli del tuo sguardo, le cose che ci siamo dette, la sensazione concreta della tua pelle sotto i polpastrelli. Ho perso tutto questo, ma posso ancora aggrapparmi a quel preciso momento in cui, attraverso il finestrino abbassato, l'estate si è riversata dentro l'abitacolo, e sapeva di noi.”
― Helen Humphreys, Wild Dogs

“Selvaggia, così mi sarei descritta allora, ma oggi mi accorgo che non era del tutto vero. Essere selvaggio significa vivere d'istinto e non d'immaginazione. Vivere selvaggiamente significa non poterlo raccontare.”
― Helen Humphreys, Wild Dogs

“I cani selvaggi si aggirano per i campi estivi appena fuori città. Hanno occhi che lampeggiano, stelle brillanti nei boschi di notte, e sfrecciano come fiamme sull'erba secca al limite del centro abitato, in cerca di qualcosa da uccidere e mangiare.
L'amore è come quei cani selvaggi. Se ti salta addosso, non molla la presa. E quello che non puoi mai sapere all'inizio è con quale intensità e quanto a lungo amerai; in quali modi un amore finito di darà la caccia, un salto dopo l'altro come fuoco misterioso che ti scorre nelle vene.
I cani selvaggi esistono davvero. Sono lì fuori, oltre la sicurezza delle strade e delle case, oltre le luci della città. E uno di quei cani è il mio.”
― Helen Humphreys, Wild Dogs

“...we catch a glimpse of white fur flashing by inside the bars of the woods.”
― Helen Humphreys, Wild Dogs

“The stars wire the sky together and the crickets fill the shadows of the earth with their breath.”
― Helen Humphreys, Wild Dogs

“I can feel the heat blossoms on your skin.”
― Helen Humphreys, Wild Dogs

“We have built our houses between what is fluid and what is fixed.”
― Helen Humphreys, Wild Dogs

“If there's no apparent reason for something to change, then why does it change? Is it a dog's nature to vary behaviour when life becomes too comfortable? Is it ours?”
― Helen Humphreys, Wild Dogs