Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance Quotes

“Why do you do that?"

"Do what?"

"Take something beautiful and vandalize it with skepticism?”
― Ruth Emmie Lang, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

“The silence in the house was painful, but I had begun to realize that half of it belonged to me.”
― Ruth Emmie Lang, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

“Don't cry over the same thing twice. Get it all out the first time, even if it's loud and messy. Then it's over.”
― Ruth Emmie Lang, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

“Don't leave anything you can't come back to.”
― Ruth Emmie Lang, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

“I feel like...before, I had one way of looking at things, and now, I have a million possibilities, and I get to choose.”
― Ruth Emmie Lang, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

“Most girls celebrate their birthdays with friends. I spent mine with a pack of wolves.”
― Ruth Emmie Lang, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

“I wasn't doing magic, but I was in it, surrounded on all sides by incredible, beautiful things. It made me feel like a wizard even though I wasn't one, even though I never could be one. p. 306”
― Ruth Emmie Lang, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

“I was always doing that, apologizing for the way I looked as if the world were somehow suffering from it p. 29”
― Ruth Emmie Lang, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

“If country music has taught me anything, it's that getting drunk probably isn't the best method of dealing with heartbreak. But I'm a traditionalist" p. 202”
― Ruth Emmie Lang, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

“It was a peaceful, unassuming life scored by birds in the morning and crickets in the evening, and because it was precious to us, we handled it with care.”
― Ruth Emmie Lang, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

“I've been called magic, but I wouldn't use that term exactly. I like to think of myself as always being in the right place at the right time, or the wrong place at the wrong time. Very rarely am I simply in an acceptable place at a generally convenient time. That said, I find those rare occasions very pleasant, mostly because they give me time to work on my crosswords.”
― Ruth Emmie Lang, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

“My wolf brothers and sisters have a saying (or a howl) that goes, "Don't leave anything you can't come back to." I know I can come back here and I will be welcomed, and that brings me more comfort than anything else in this world.”
― Ruth Emmie Lang, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

“Two weeks later, I wore a coat to school for the first time that year. Fall had made its presence known in the form of wet, earthy smells and shivering tree limbs shedding leaves in various shades of exotic cat. I walked to school that morning, listening to the crisp sounds that punctuated each one of my footfalls and the honks of geese flying overhead. I found it strange that there could be so much beauty in the death of all these living things. Maybe it was only beautiful because we knew they would be resurrected next spring. I don't think I would enjoy fall quite as much if I knew there was an eternal winter to follow.”
― Ruth Emmie Lang, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

“I found it strange that there could be so much beauty in the death of all these living things. Maybe it was only beautiful because we knew they would be resurrected next spring. I don't think I would enjoy fall quite as much if I knew there was an eternal winter to follow.”
― Ruth Emmie Lang, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

“Weylyn and I ordered two pieces of blackberry pie. “Someone worked really hard to make this,” he said, pointing to his slice with his fork. That’s what sealed it for me, that simple appreciation for something that most of us take for granted.”
― Ruth Emmie Lang, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

“Why do you do that?” “Do what?” “Take something beautiful and vandalize it with skepticism?”
― Ruth Emmie Lang, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

“I helped her organize them alphabetically and was browsing the titles when she said, “I only buy a book after reading it twice. If you can enjoy it more than once, you know it’s a keeper.”
― Ruth Emmie Lang, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

“As he bent down and scratched her behind the ears like she was a harmless dog, I felt a sadness more acute than anything I'd ever felt before. Weylyn Grey didn't belong in my world. He belonged in theirs, and there was nothing I could say to convince him otherwise. My suspicions were only confirmed when he finally looked up and saw me. There was freedom in his face, relief mixed with sadness. In that moment, I could feel sand between my toes, water on my skin. I saw the sun melt into water until everything was starry and purple. I held Weylyn one last time in that dark place, then turned and walked into the bright white snow.”
― Ruth Emmie Lang, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

“I guess I only really had five years as a mother, but it was five more than I ever thought I’d get. And I spent them with Weylyn Grey.”
― Ruth Emmie Lang, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

“Weylyn laughed the way adults do after they’ve been sad (when their mouths realize they’re happy before their eyes do).”
― Ruth Emmie Lang, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

“Weylyn’s expression shifted gears. I could tell, even before he spoke, that he had drained his mind of his own sadness and replaced it with empathy for mine. “I’m really sorry,” he said, and meant it.”
― Ruth Emmie Lang, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

“Actually, it’s kind of a love story.”
― Ruth Emmie Lang, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

“Weylyn's expression shifted gears. I could tell, even before he spoke, that he had drained his mind of his own sadness, and replaced it with empathy for mine.”
― Ruth Emmie Lang, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

“I remarkably still had both my eyes, despite my impulse to hurl myself off things that were often a generous distance from the ground. Some of my other hobbies included running with sharp objects, lighting fires and lighting sharp objects on fire and launching them into the sky with my slingshot.”
― Ruth Emmie Lang, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

“I thought about the hundreds of hours I had spent over the last year staring at bugs and cataloguing them; about how small my world had become: the wetlands, the coffee shop, the apartment, Quan. I imagined myself looking at Earth through a microscope and having to crank up the magnification to 1,000,000 × to be able to see the five-mile radius that I called home. Even geese fly north for the summer. I was less adventurous than a goose.”
― Ruth Emmie Lang, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

“We'd sit on the porch and drink hot chocolate, watching the steam draw treble clefs on a gray sheet of sky.”
― Ruth Emmie Lang, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

“If country music has taught me anything, it’s that getting drunk probably isn’t the best method of dealing with heartbreak. But I’m a traditionalist.”
― Ruth Emmie Lang, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

“Weylyn glanced up at me, then looked back down at his still-cupped hands under the water, waiting patiently for something new to fill them. “Me, too.”
― Ruth Emmie Lang, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

“I found it strange that there could be so much beauty in the death of all these living things. Maybe it was only beautiful because we knew they would be resurrected next spring. I don’t think I would enjoy fall quite as much if I knew there was an eternal winter to follow.”
― Ruth Emmie Lang, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance

“Why do you do that?” “Do what?” “Take something beautiful and vandalize it with skepticism”
― Ruth Emmie Lang, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance