Hold the Dark Quotes

“He knew what haunted meant. The dead don’t haunt the living. The living haunt themselves.”
― William Giraldi, Hold the Dark

“Because he was beginning to fear that man belongs neither in civilization nor nature—because we are aberrations between two states of being.”
― William Giraldi, Hold the Dark

“A wolf expelled from its pack will travel hard distances to find another—to be accepted, to have kin. It wants to stanch hunger, sleep off fatigue, make itself anew.”
― William Giraldi, Hold the Dark

“You can always blame a person. The world ain’t nothing but persons, every goddamn one of them starved for something.”
― William Giraldi, Hold the Dark

“Why is this happening to me, Mr. Core? What myth has come true in my house?” “They’re just hungry wolves, Mrs. Slone. It’s no myth. It’s just hunger. No one’s cursed. Wolves will take kids if they need to. This is simple biology here. Simple nature.” He wanted to say: All myths are true. Every one is the only truth we have.”
― William Giraldi, Hold the Dark

“The dead don’t haunt the living. The living haunt themselves.”
― William Giraldi, Hold the Dark

“Haunted and bereft, he learned then, were an unforgiving pair.”
― William Giraldi, Hold the Dark

“The annals of human wisdom fall silent when faced with the feral in us.”
― William Giraldi, Hold the Dark

“Across the open compass behind town, north toward the range, he saw snow-burdened trees bowed like penitents. The morning seemed made of muslin, the sun less than a smudge. The wind came in soughs and shook free a pine scent from trees, then sent snow aloft as mist.”
― William Giraldi, Hold the Dark

“Like grief, cold is an absence that takes up space. Winter wants the soul and bores into the body to get it.”
― William Giraldi, Hold the Dark

“This land has hosted horrors most don’t care to count. Wolfsbane. But we are the hemlock, the bane of the wolf.”
― William Giraldi, Hold the Dark