Mongrels Quotes

“If you’re not a beautiful monster, then you’re a villager,”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Mongrels

“Everything makes sense if you look at it long enough.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Mongrels

“Always feed a wolf his fill," the old woman quotes out loud, "lest you wake with your throat in his jaws.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Mongrels

“When you're a kid, facts don't matter. It's how hard you believe. How much you wish.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Mongrels

“The modern world, it’s custom-designed to kill werewolves. There’s french fries, for one.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Mongrels

“What I was doing was making deals. With the world. I’ll take care of you, you take care of me, cool?”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Mongrels

“Damn the future, right? It’s right now that matters. When you don’t have a fu-
ture, it’s always right now that means everything.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Mongrels

“That’s how it is with werewolves. You have something, then you just have the story of it.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Mongrels

“If you’re not a beautiful monster, then you’re a villager,” he said”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Mongrels

“A long time ago Darren had said that bears and wolves weren’t meant to get along. I thought he’d been talking about state troopers, though. This”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Mongrels

“This is how it is with werewolves. Even when they lie, it’s the truth.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Mongrels

“Everything’s a trade-off when you’re a werewolf. It’s like the world wants us to be monsters. Like it won’t let us live the way normal citizens do.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Mongrels

“Werewolves aren’t proud. If we were, we’d have died out centuries ago.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Mongrels

“He’s the one who finally figured out the real way to recognize a werewolf. They’re the ones who never grow up.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Mongrels

“Some people just aren’t fit for human company.”...
“And some people just don’t want it.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Mongrels

“Shakespeare snaking from the window to the door, to escape like we had.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Mongrels

“And none of Grandpa’s stories were ever lies. I know that now. They were just true in a different way. He had”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Mongrels

“A thousand truck-stop T-shirts can’t be wrong.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Mongrels

“Just like my mom, Grandma had died the day she gave birth. It was like a curse in our family. “Because”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Mongrels

“My grandfather used to tell me he was a werewolf. He’d”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Mongrels

“People say werewolves are animals, but they’re wrong. We’re so much worse. We’re people, but with claws, with teeth, with lungs that can go for two days, legs that can eat up counties.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Mongrels

“and the mechanic closes his eyes, knows that the people still don’t want werewolves coming to dinner. But they are anyway, he says to himself, to help his uncle. And they’re hungrier than ever.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Mongrels

“So then they try to chew the world up, the same way a dog with rabies bites just because it feels good, because the world is pain. Might as well spread it around.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Mongrels

“I’ve never seen one, but these man-wolves, these moondogs, they’re what the movies are based on. They can’t go the full distance, can’t transform like you can if you were born into it, but they can get half the way there, anyway. The claws, too much hair, the ears and the snout. The teeth. Their body, it’s trying to fight the blood, to keep it down. But the moon, it sings that blood up to the surface like a tide.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Mongrels

“if there are any real answers about werewolves, then it’s a picture of them right there doing that, a picture of them right there trying to find each other.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Mongrels

“It was the werewolf version of The Talk. Just, with more dead bodies.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Mongrels

“And none of Grandpa’s stories were ever lies. I know that now. They were just true in a different way.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Mongrels

“He’s not a bad wolf either,” he went on, shaking his head side to side. “That’s the thing. But a good wolf isn’t always a good man. Remember that.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Mongrels

“Right around sixteen, your teeth get too sharp for the teat, little man. Simple as that.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Mongrels

“When you're a kid, facts don't matter. It's how hard you believe. How much you wish.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Mongrels